Mike Summers (The State Representative): Bringing in new business is my number one priority.
Roseanne: How?
Mike Summers: Through tax incentives. See, we’re going to make it cheaper for out of state businesses to set up shop right here in Lanford.
Roseanne: So they get a tax break?
Mike Summers: Yea. That’s why they come here
Roseanne: Well whose going to pay the taxes that they aint paying?
Mike Summers: Well y-you will. But you’ll be working. Good steady employment.
Roseanne: Union wages?
Mike Summers: Well now, part of the reason these companies are finding it so expensive to operate in other locations—
Roseanne: So, they’re gonna dump the unions so they can come here and hire us at scab wages, and then for that privilege we get to pay their taxes.
Mike Summers: Is your husband home?
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