Scott Besson
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then the third part of that was, as you talked about, the tax bill, which has immediate expensing for factories, immediate expensing for equipment.
So we are making the U.S.
the best place to build your factory.
It is energy dominance.
We want to have secure, cheap energy.
And then the third part is deregulation, because
We had gotten out of the ability to build things in the United States.
I had an hour-long meeting with the management here beforehand, and I said, why are we sitting in a former soybean field in Sumter, South Carolina?
And they said, you know, Governor Henry McMaster and his team got us all the permits in eight weeks.
in eight weeks and steve i'm walking through the factory talking talking to the workers here many of them had been seven had been seven to 15 years at a caterpillar factory that had closed probably because the foreign competitors they undercut them and now they're here they're
There were 800 construction jobs here.
There are going to be 300 full-time jobs.
But then the owners of this factory think that that could go up six to ten times.
And I tell you, Sumter is real South Carolina.
It is not Fancy Carlton.
It is not the mountains.
This is God.
Stephen, my family...
They came here over 300, where are we now, 370 years ago.
We've been around a long time.