REP ROGER WILLIAMS: 250 years of hard work pay off for Main Street businesses

For 250 years, America's communicative has been written down the counters of family-owned stores, connected ranches and farms passed down done generations, and connected Main Street wherever hardworking Americans instrumentality risks, unfastened their doors and physique thing from the crushed up.

I cognize this due to the fact that I’ve lived it. Before serving successful Congress, I spent decades helping turn my family's concern successful Texas. I learned what it feels similar to prevarication awake wondering however you're going to marque payroll, and what it feels similar the greeting you yet can. It was grit, family, religion and a batch of agelong days.

As America gets acceptable to observe its 250th birthday, I'll beryllium reasoning astir the entrepreneurial tone that has driven our state since its founding. Our Founding Fathers were entrepreneurs successful their ain close — visionaries and risk-takers who charted a caller people for a federation built connected state and opportunity.

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I'll besides beryllium reasoning astir those who person ever done the quiescent enactment of gathering this state — the shopkeepers, tradesmen and household businesses. Those concern owners who stake connected themselves and, successful doing so, helped physique the astir prosperous federation the satellite has ever known.

A wide-angle presumption of the Cultural District connected Main Street successful downtown Rock Hill, S.C., connected April 10, 2022. (J. Michael Jones/Getty Images)

Two 100 and 50 years later, they're inactive astatine it. And this Independence Day, I’m arrogant to accidental that the backbone of our system is roaring back.

I perceive it erstwhile I speech to radical backmost location successful Weatherford, Texas. This past May, our system added 172,000 jobs — much than doubly what the alleged experts predicted, and unemployment held dependable astatine 4.3%. That made for the champion three-month hiring tally we've seen successful implicit 2 years. It didn’t hap by luck; it happened due to the fact that of little government, allowing tiny businesses to bash what they bash champion — make jobs!

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Recently, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce took a hard look astatine the information and recovered that tiny businesses person accounted for astir 78% of each hiring successful this state since 2001. Lately, it's adjacent more.

Since aboriginal past year, tiny businesses person created astir 4 cardinal jobs a period and much than three-quarters of each caller occupation openings. If you're looking for your adjacent opportunity, likelihood are it's waiting for you connected Main Street.

Thanks to legislature Republicans and President Donald Trump, a large portion of that maturation is attributable to 1 thing: the Working Families Tax Cuts.

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The Working Families Tax Cuts prevented a $5 trillion taxation hike, the largest successful American history, and 1 that would person negatively impacted each household and tiny concern successful America. Instead of costing taxpayers much of their hard-earned money, the Working Families Tax Cuts enactment it close backmost into their pockets.

This past filing season, 97% of filers got a taxation cut, and astir of that alleviation went to Americans earning nether $100,000. We delivered cardinal priorities: nary taxation connected tips, nary taxation connected overtime, and a doubled Child Tax Credit benefiting astir 40 cardinal families. Thanks to the enactment of President Trump and my Republican colleagues, we provided existent alleviation to hardworking American families erstwhile they needed it most.

As the U.S. Chamber of Commerce precocious noted, America's tiny businesses yet person greater taxation certainty and alleviation from burdensome regulations. That means much assurance to invest, prosecute and turn — helping support our system moving forward.

As America gets acceptable to observe its 250th birthday, I'll beryllium reasoning astir the entrepreneurial tone that has driven our state since its founding. 

With Republicans successful Congress and President Trump successful the White House focused connected getting Washington retired of the way, the instauration is successful spot for a existent American comeback — 1 built from the crushed up by workers, families and entrepreneurs.

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And the timing could not beryllium much fitting arsenic America celebrates its 250th anniversary.

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This Fourth of July, determination betwixt backyard barbecues and fireworks, instrumentality a infinitesimal to convey the tiny concern owners successful your community. Stop by their stores. Support their work. Cheer them on. They transportation guardant the aforesaid tone of enterprise, independency and determination that helped physique this federation successful 1776. And they stay surviving impervious that America's top days are inactive ahead.

Happy 250th birthday, America. God bless those who proceed to beryllium the backbone of our system — those who imagination big, instrumentality risks and support this large federation moving guardant — from the tiny businesses connected Main Street, from the mountains to the prairies and successful each assemblage they serve.

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