The 7th Congressional District candidates offered biting attacks on jobs in one of their final debates. Meeting in Wausau Tuesday night, Democrat Julie Lassa accused Republican Sean Duffy of supporting tax loopholes that ship jobs overseas. “I think that it’s absolutely crazy to ask American workers to work as hard as they do every day, and pay their taxes, just for the federal government to turn around and give their taxes dollars to a corporation who then moves their jobs to China, India, Mexico or some other country.”
But Duffy said Lassa is to blame – pointing to jobs lost under her chairmanship of the Senate economic development committee as an example. “There’s a lot of jobs in Wisconsin that are being exported to other states because the policies that Senator Lass has advocated for has made it more difficult for those companies to operate here in Wisconsin,” Duffy said. [Read more...]
