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Chesterton — Indiana’s leading small business advocacy group has asked the Hoosiers to send to Washington a Republican who hopes to re-elect the state’s incumbent U.S. Senator and represent Northwest Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives this year. I encourage you.

The Indiana chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) welcomed Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) of Crown Point and Jennifer-Ruth Green in a brief ceremony Monday at Joe’s Bread in Chesterton. ) enthusiastically supported Mr.

“Senator Todd Young was a staunch supporter of small businesses during his tenure in Congress, maintained a strong voting record, and won the NFIB’s Small Business Guardian Award for his entire term. We are confident that Jennifer Ruth Green will be a valuable small business supporter in the US House of Representatives,” said NFIB Indiana Director Natalie Robinson.

“They both pledged to focus on small business issues such as inflation, labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, and vowed to oppose new taxes and mandates for small businesses.” Small businesses will benefit with them in Congress,” she added.

Young said he aims to get the federal government to sweep away business impediments and regulations to restore entrepreneurial optimism and confidence in the future.

“I measure the success and growth of our economy by traveling the highways and byways of Indiana and interacting with small business leaders. It was just recently,” Young said.

Young said the COVID-19 pandemic, high inflation, and increased federal spending have left many small business owners either risking new capital or investing in their companies in the face of such uncertainty. said it would not be good for the Hoosiers or the economy.

“We have to be very cautious at the federal level. When we spend money on a particular area, if the money isn’t being used to increase productivity in that area, we don’t offer support.” You should think many times before,” Young said. “What we don’t want to do is put ankle weights on people who help drive our economy.

Mr. Green likewise said that if he had the opportunity to represent Lake, Porter, and northwestern Laporte counties in Congress, he would urge them to cut taxes, oppose federal regulation, support U.S. energy production, and increase the enforcement power of the Internal Revenue Service. It said it would help small businesses through minimization.

“We will fight reckless spending that destroys employee participation and supply chains and ultimately leads to the high inflation of the last four decades. Small businesses pay the price, big government, big business and union bosses benefit. Because they are,” Green said.

Chesterton native Joe Grossbauer, who ran Joe’s Bread at 225 S. Calumet Road for the past five months, says some of these concerns, particularly the baked goods, coffee and tea he sells in his store. He said he could sympathize with the associated price fluctuations.

“Food cost changes, price changes and supply chain issues are affecting us,” says Grossbauer. “Cost changes make things a little unpredictable for small businesses.”

At the same time, Grossbauer said his bakery cafe and event space would not take sides in the upcoming election.