What's next? Yeah, what's next? Like, affordable health care, you know, like, oh, Jesus. And that legislation did not pass, and it was because the Wisconsin restaurant Association rallied their troops. They didn't even have the courage to make a public statement. They went, it was a whisper campaign to all of their predominantly, actually exclusively, with one exception, republican legislators, and said, this is no good. Kill this. And they didn't surprise me at all. So a tax cut which would also have benefited employees, became a partisan issue simply because. Yeah, I don't know. They never made a statement. (15:36–15:52)
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