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State of American Business 2025
State of American Business 2025: All Business Is Local
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- Cutting tariffs would counter the punishing increase in the cost of living that American families are experiencing and would enhance the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers.The practice of common ownership both promotes stability and improves the performance of publicly traded companies.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is departing from its core responsibilities by attempting to regulate market competition, shunning procedural requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act, and devising new enforcement powers for the Director.Proposals from Congress for a windfall profits tax on oil companies during the most recent rise in global oil prices is a misguided policy. The premise that a higher tax on oil companies would reduce gasoline prices for American consumers defies the laws of economics and history.Retail theft seems to have been normalized in many U.S. cities.This Hill letter was sent to the Senate Committee on the Budget, on a hearing entitled, "Corporate Profits are Soaring as Prices Rise: Are Corporate Greed and Profiteering Fueling Inflation?"Policymakers should be working on solutions that address the root causes of inflation, not blame businesses.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce – the world's largest business organization – is imploring Congress to step up enforcement against rampant retail theft.Communities and businesses large and small across the United States are facing a significant increase in retail theft and organized retail crime. Here's what policymakers should do.















