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Here. >> dave: right. that's part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there's no tax. >> anthony: right. >> dave: it's definitely been good for our community. there's a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you'll see two or three come up the highway today. >> anthony: and who's buying those things? >> dave: everybody who's working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsman hom...

>> anthony: american parts assembled in mexico come back here. >> dave: right. that's part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there's no tax. >> anthony: right. >> dave: it's definitely been good for our community. there's a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you'll see two or three come up the highway today. >> anthony: and who's buying those things? >> dave: everybody who's wor...

Assembled in mexico come back here. >> dave: right. that's part of the nafta thing. you can take it, have it here, take it over there, assemble it, bring it back. there's no tax. >> anthony: right. >> dave: it's definitely been good for our community. there's a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you'll see two or three come up the highway today. >> anthony: and who's buying those things? >> dave: everybody who's working-class. the manufacture...

>> anthony: you have to? >> dave: yeah, every job here pays $10 an hour, whether you're the attorney or the barista or the janitor. so you're going to have to work a lot of different jobs to make it because it's expensive to live here. >> anthony: right. it's a small town. >> dave: 1,800 people. >> anthony: it seems an unlikely place to put in a spanking new public radio station that's heard all over texas, yes? >> dave: well, that's exactly right. i mean, your expenses for running a 100,000 watt transmitter on top of a mountain that gets struck by lightning every three weeks is pretty tough. ...

Good for our community. there's a mobile home factory called solitaire. you see them all over here, people buy them. they take the stuff down there, they assemble the homes down there, and then they bring them up the road. you'll see two or three come up the highway today. >> anthony: and who's buying those things? >> dave: everybody who's working-class. the manufactured housing is the craftsmen home of the 21st century. >> anthony: it appears that marfa in particular is going to be a tourist and service economy. there's money flooding in here. it is an irresistible tide -- is there money tric...