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Democrats and Republicans seem to have irreconcilable views on economics, but on one point they agree: Small business is better than big. Big tech companies “squash small businesses and innovation,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren claimed this month as she called for antitrust action a gainst Amazon, Facebook and Google. In a speech last June called “Small Business Drives Our Economy,” Sen. Ted Cruz complained that federal bureaucrats “hammer the living daylights out of small businesses.”

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