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Small Business vs. Big Government: One Business Owner’s Story

“My biggest fear is that everything I worked my whole life for will be gone, because of a law that I thought I was following.”

­–Michelle Cox

It’s every employer’s nightmare: a phone call from out of the blue with threats from the federal government. That’s the situation one Iowa small business found itself in, as punishment for following Iowa state law that allows teenagers to work until 9:00 p.m. Watch to learn what happened in one Iowa city and learn more about harmful government regulations here: https://thefga.org/solution/increasing-government-transparency-and-accountability/

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