“Cutting taxes and simplifying regulations makes America the place to invest!” President Trump tweeted in January 2018 he was talking about Huntsville. Car companies from Japan, an electronics manufacturer from Korea and many other concerns churn out goods for the domestic market. Orbiting the Army base are military and aerospace contractors: Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Southwest of downtown, in a facility that synthesized chemical weapons during World War II, the Army maintains a major research center and garrison. The unemployment rate is lower than the country’s, and educated workers are in high demand. Huntsville is a boomtown in the Southern mold. He calculated the typical annual salary as $42,500. The city’s mayor wrote in a newspaper column that he was thrilled that Remington’s quest for a new factory space had ended in Huntsville. Workers at the new plant, the company said, would earn a minimum average of $19.50 an hour assembling shotguns, pistols, hunting rifles and AR-15-style semiautomatics. Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, had decided to expand from its historic home in upstate New York to a gigantic former Chrysler factory near the airport. The news spread around Huntsville, Ala., in the winter of 2014.
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