Video: Indiana Project Todd Mosby

It was a time that everyone was able to champion as to the fact that Toyota selected southwestern Indiana. Toyota has been an excellent neighbor and an excellent corporate partner to all of Gibson County. And not just Gibson County, but southwestern Indiana. They provide to so many not-for-profit organizations, to the community governments. There isn't a community around that doesn't ask for donations of some type or some help and Toyota's right there. And what a lot of people don't understand is when a big industry like a Toyota and their subsidiaries come to a community like Princeton and a county like Gibson, the taxes that they pay make for a break to the residents that live within that community. The taxes for every homeowner is far less than they would be had we all had to make up, every property owner would have to make up the taxes that Toyota's paid. Last year, in 2007, Toyota paid $5.3 million in property taxes. If not for that, all the residents would have to be making up that $5.3 million. With the rising gasoline prices and the types of vehicles that are produced here in Gibson County, I wouldn't even think about second guessing what Toyota officials, both in Japan and here in Indiana and in Earlinger Kentucky where the United States corporate headquarters is, I wouldn't even think about second guessing what they're thinking about doing. And it isn't something that anyone in this community knows. I'm sure they have a good handle on the forecast on the direction that they're going to go. I absolutely feel like that the American consumer feels that a product that is made here in the United States is a product that is born and built in the USA. I think that when people from the United States, Americans know that they build this product, they know it's a good product, they know that it's product they're gonna buy. But we also don't seem to have a problem when we turn over the little toy and it says made in China, we don't have any problem consuming that either. So I think things have changed over the last 20 years and probably changed pretty dramatically.