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Here's what I sent to them:

It won't affect my business negatively -I don't make millions.

Over the years it has become increasingly apparent to me that the needs of big business and the needs of small business are far more opposed than in line. Unfortunately the MN and local Chambers, who could be a force for the needs of small business, hew to the US Chamber's consistent and exclusive support of big business and entrenched wealth over the needs of small business. For this reason I have never joined a local Chamber. Why would I want any part of my dues or even my mere presence to support an organization that directly undermines my interests?

The Chamber seems to believe that an unfettered free market is somehow always benevolent. You'd think the recent crashing of the economy by the very people who believe such nonsense would have put that notion to bed! The effects of that economic debacle have hurt my business far more than the imagined burden of taxes the Chamber rails so strongly against. Trickle down is exactly the opposite of what, in fact, actually happened. It was all wrong -yet the chamber still lives in this tragically destructive fantasy world. The Chamber continually supports positions that concentrate more and more of this nation's wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people -no matter what the cost to our country or to small business.

It affects small businesses directly when the very infrastructure that made America great is savagely attacked by the Chamber. None of these so called titans of industry is a self made man -they all succeeded, in large part from the educated workers, the fine roads, the fair court system, the investments in basic research and the countless other things that the rest of us Americans pay for through our taxes.

We are fortunate to finally have a governor intelligent enough and brave enough to say to big business and the top wage earners, in effect, "stop being so greedy -do your part as an American to save this economy".

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