It’s undeniable small business is the backbone of this great nation. And it ought to remain that way. After all, there are 31.7 million small businesses currently operating and employing nearly half of the U.S. workforce.
In wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, small businesses became an imperiled, threatened species after the government ordered their closure. Extended lockdown orders exacerbated problems for business owners and their employees, who, despite employing careful measures to open and operate safely, couldn’t return to work.
Soon after, our government began picking winners and losers, deeming who is and isn’t “essential” — leaving countless Americans in the dust and communities barren and deserted. A travesty, if you will.
Enter the new book by “recovering” investment banker and New York Times bestselling author Carol Roth: The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America.
Roth’s book is a sober examination into the root causes of the War on Small Business. This war was formally declared in March of 2020—but the animus towards small business didn’t start there, she writes. Free enterprise is in danger of going extinct. Now, this threat became abundantly clear in the last year.