Small Business
99% of Wisconsin businesses are small businesses–Wisconsin is a small business state!
Small Businesses Strengthen Communities
Small businesses strengthen our communities, and are key to Wisconsin’s economy. I serve on the Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business Development, and am also proud to have introduced and supported legislation to help small businesses.
Go Big For Small Business: The Small Business Portal
Working with experts in the needs of small businesses owners, and being a small business owner myself, I introduced legislation to create an online portal, or a “one-stop-shop”, for business owners to start, manage, and grow their businesses and change how they interface with the state.
And this session my bill–which I wrote from scratch and have tenaciously reintroduced 3 sessions in a row now–received a public hearing! This is what we do as people who run for office: Identify issues facing our neighbors and ourselves, run for office, propose solutions, get bipartisan support, and hopefully create the change our constituents need! Sometimes it takes patience and tenacity-I understand that and I keep working until we move forward!!
Once the portal evolves, my vision is it will both support a small business’s ability to compete with larger businesses with its competitive bidding process, and save the taxpayers money on municipal projects because of the benefit of competitive bidding.
Affordable Healthcare and Childcare
Every small business owner knows how hard it is to provide affordable healthcare for themselves, and their family. And, we also know how hard it is to access affordable childcare. Unaffordable healthcare, and childcare deserts across the state challenge Wisconsin small business owners, and businesses looking to locate in Wisconsin. I am committed to fighting for Wisconsin families to have affordable, accessible childcare and healthcare.