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Happy Small Business Saturday! Small businesses, above and beyond their core profitable offerings, strengthen our Main Streets and communities, throughout Montana and America. They enhance our social fabric. They hire locally and pay taxes. They serve as meeting points...

where locals come together to converse, laugh, & debate the issues. Their workers often volunteer in the community. Small businesses are contributing in an outsized manner to America. I wish I could say the same about their large multinational rivals, backed by @stevedaines,

whose lobbyists have created an unequal, unjust playing field, impacting our small businesses and communities. Daines is not a friend of small business and hopes people will mistake his fealty to large multinational corporations as being pro-business in general. Daines, even

before elected, suggested Great Depression II inducing policies in the wake of the Great Recession, which would have devastated small business. He has repeatedly voted to deprive tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Montanans, including those with

pre-existing conditions, of basic health care coverage, attempting to make Montana’s and America’s workforce sicker and less productive, hurting small businesses. He then voted, late in the business cycle, to blow a multi-trillion dollar hole through the nation’s pocketbook, in

order to give foreign investors, America’s wealthiest families, large multinational corporations, hedge fund managers, private equity fund managers, and powerful C-suite executives huge, one-time bonuses – shifting the competitive landscape even more against small businesses. He