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Jessi Ebben: “It is more affordable to chop down a tree, use that log that…”

Featuring: Jessi Ebben, Republican | Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, 7th Congressional District

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Jessi Ebben - Republican Candidate for WI 7th CD

Published | Video Starts at 35:11

And so because it's, it's more affordable to make a product over there, and I'll give you an example, It is more affordable to chop down a tree, use that log that timber, send it overseas to make a product, to manufacture the finished good overseas, ship it back over and distribute it throughout the, you know, put it through the supply chains, transport it on tractor trailers, on semis throughout the United States. Maybe even rail is more affordable to do that than it is to produce something here in the United States. And that's because of regulation, not only through the manufacturing process itself, it's because of the additional regulation requirements. (35:11–35:32)

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Asserts that it is more affordable to manufacture goods overseas and ship them back to the U.S. than to produce them domestically.

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