We must chart a path where American families, small businesses, and entrepreneurs are the center of our economy.

A majority of US businesses are beneficial to the nation’s economy and individual Americans. However, due to lax antitrust enforcement, certain companies have been allowed to stifle competition, which harms not only competitors, but those buying or using certain products.

Rigorous antitrust reforms are necessary to allow Americans to meaningfully complete with mopoly power.

This nation has been decimated by unfair trade practices for too long. The core manufacturing belt of the United States has been hollowed out, leaving entire towns destitute and depopulated. This trend must be reversed.

American businesses should be allowed to operate without being forced to compete with slave labor from across the world. We’re the home of innovation on Earth, and it’s time to act like it. We should incentivize investment in new manufacturing technologies, as well as tax incentives and deregulation, to discourage offshoring and bring jobs back home.

Congress, as well as state and local governments, owe it to their constituents to be good stewards of the nation. This remit extends not just in preserving America’s natural beauty, but also remembering the impact seemingly abstract policymaking has on millions.

We call on governments to promote efficiencies where possible within government processes and procedures, to simplify the daily lives of American citizens, and to promote transparency and accountability for state actors. The role of governance and politics is a constant give-and-take, and government officials should seek to achieve complex goals while avoiding the harmful overregulation that stifles development.

The slow and steady dissipation of American communities — from job loss, drug use, and crumbling infrastructure, ought to be reversed.

Local governments, often with no resources to improve the situation themselves, have resigned themselves into agents of managed decline. This decline isn’t just economic, but communal and personal. Reversing this trend will allow them to once again become the hidden gems of American prosperity.

Americans can now work remotely, seek cheaper costs of living, and provide a new opportunity to revitalize large areas of the country. We need to follow this behavior with incentives that includes promoting rebuilding our roads, reshoring jobs, and encouraging municipalities to redevelop their centers in innovative and engaging ways.