The Irony of “Help”: How Policy Is Wrecking the Backbone of America For decades, the lip service in D.C. has been that small businesses are the backbone of the economy. And yet every lever of policy—tariffs, interest rate hikes, healthcare mandates—has been pulled to fracture that backbone. Tariffs, for example, were sold as a patriotic maneuver to bring jobs back. What they actually did? Pulverized domestic manufacturers. Companies like ETM Manufacturing had to cut staff just to survive Trump's erratic trade war. When the state starts picking winners and losers through artificial market interventions, everyone loses—especially the small guy who can’t afford a D.C. lobbyist. When “Free” Markets Aren’t Free Let’s be crystal clear: tariffs are taxes. They aren’t paid…
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