policies enacted after the biden administration took office. so the more money you have chasing the same amount of goods, he s disincentivized people from working thereby releasing the labor force and that labor force isn t producing enough goods and services to keep up with the demand. griff: kurt, how specifically are you personally impact bid the inflation? well, from a business standpoint we can t raise our prices fast enough. the cost of our inputs continue to go up, the cost of labor continues to go up and, you know, for a while it was called it was transitory, so you kind of back off because if it s a temporary thing you don t want to overreact to it and so margins are affected, supply chain is affected and so it s a big challenge for us from a business standpoint and i don t have to say how much of a challenge it is for all of us from a personal standpoint. griff: all right, aj dixon,
as a woman who has taken taking away my right to choose and then not being able to give us access to child care because you re going to force us to have these children, i i think is i just can t do it. i can t i support mandela barnes because he supports my right to choose as a woman and support my child right to choose and once he support it is values of my staff and 50% of my staff is lgbtq and i support someone who shares the same values of my staff. griff: is that your top issue, aj? it is for me, 10%. griff: inflation is your top, kurt? i would say so, yes. griff: very interesting, thank you both aj and kurt for coming on. best for your businesses, it s great to get insight from people that actually have skin in the game as they say. we will be seeing what happens on tuesday night. kurt, aj, thank you very much. thanks, griff. griff: anita. anita: great panel, griff,
to c corporations, s corporations and ron johnson almost singed handily made sure that the tax proposal affected all of us, not just, you know, a small percentage of us. 95% of small businesses in wisconsin and in the country are pass-through entities and the tax relief that was contained in the original draft would not have affected us. so we would have been at a disadvantage to other corporations simply by the way we w we legally yet ourselvesp and senator has on score board. griff: some other states where crime is a big part of the conversation and in milwaukee where your restaurant is, aj, we can show our viewers, you have uptick homicide 15%, carjacking up 17%, how much of crime factors into to your decision on
between i m predisposed to support citizen legislators, people who have had a track record of success and politicians, career politicians and capacity to oftentimes confuse activity with results that could translate into being for defunding the police when it s politically, quote, sexy, only to be for funding the police when it s no longer sexy. everyone knows where ron johnson stands as it relates to crime. it s no secret and he s at a consistent track record in his 8 years in office or, i m sorry, 12 years in office whereas the same can t be said for his opponent. griff: guys, we are just about out of time. last 10 seconds on each of you. we have to talk about abortion. that issue popping up across the country. does it matter to you, kurt? yes, it matters to me. griff: so you are supporting johnson for a pro-life standpoint? yes. griff: all right, aj, i will give you the final word?
things better and bringing more, you know, local spending, keeping things back in the community. griff: and so it s interesting because many people believe that they favor the republicans under this inflation situation, but yet you support mandela barnes. would you have a message, aj, then for both barnes and really this administration, the biden administration about how they can specifically help you? things that could specifically help us would be closing certain tax gaps to help, you know, give us better tax credits as small business owners because, i mean, when you look into small business owner spending more on labor and then paying, you know, taxes that involve in that, there could be better tax incentives and more things to help work towards us and i do know that mandela barnes is definitely working towards, you know, having better access to capital but path to universal health care which is