Everyone loves going to a family owned restaurant or a corner store owned by someone who lives in the neighborhood. During the pandemic we saw big box stores and chains use their vast wealth to get carve outs from government officials. This led to thousands of mom & pop shops across the country closing their doors for good. Instead of helping the soulless chain stores take over our country, we should be prioritizing entrepreneurship & small businesses in this country. Breaking up monopolies to lower the barrier to entry is a great place to start.

The unaffordability crisis in America is being driven by monopolies & oligarchies preventing competition in the marketplace and squeezing Americans for every dollar they have. These companies either buy their competition or rip off their ideas and pass them off as their own. The increased consolidation of wealth and power has led to everything in our lives becoming lower quality and more expensive.

It’s obvious we don’t have a free market or real competition because our leaders in Congress have allowed monopolies to grow unchecked over the last two decades. We have to pass new anti-trust legislation that addresses the types of monopolies we face in the technological age. Competition breeds innovation, so breaking up monopolies will revitalize the American economy.