For small businesses today, declaring independence can send the same message. Small businesses bring independence to their local economies, investing more than three times as much money per dollar of sales in their local economies than national chains and big box stores, according to the American Independent Business Alliance.
Small businesses make decisions locally by handling purchasing, customer service and other matters in-house, rather than answering to distant headquarters. Far-away management didn’t work for the early American colonies – and it won’t work for our local economies today.
