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Ben Wikler: “This is especially going to wipe out the small businesses…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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And we don't make all that stuff in the United States. So when you just jack up the prices of all the factors of production, it makes it really hard to stay in business. And This is especially going to wipe out the small businesses that don't have the capital to reinvest. and build new factories and, you know, figure out how to resource every one of the things that goes into their products. So this. This really. It is just deeply, impressively, horrendously bad. (25:16–25:21)

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Asserts that small businesses are at risk due to lack of capital to adapt.

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