Why isn't VW building new plant in Michigan?

Autoblog:

It's been a rather short trip from VW asking whether it would build a factory in the U.S. to saying "Ja" and closing in on two locations. The decision on where the factory will be hasn't been made yet, but spots in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are the leading candidates.

Plans apparently call for a large plant, and VW wants it churning out cars by 2011. So the company needs at least 1,000 acres, and it needs to get to work on it immediately. If VW went with the site in Rocky Mount, NC, it would be placed about midway between VW's future corporate headquarters in Virginia and the cluster of suppliers around BMW's Spartanburg, SC plant. But VW is also scouting land in Anderson, SC.
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While there are some issues with corporate headquarters and suppliers there were issues that prompted those facilities to be built outside Michigan too. My guess is too many Democrats and too many taxes and too many labor bosses who could make VW as uncompetitive as the companies located in Michigan.

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