Forward this to five people.

To every American who has ever run a business, signed a paycheck, or just paid their taxes, I am a small business owner and I am grateful every day to be American. I genuinely believe we have the greatest country on earth. Not because we're perfect — but because of what we are capable of when we get out of our own way. What concerns me is this: we don't seem to have a long-term plan. I have watched one administration after the next spend its energy undoing what the last one built. We take two steps forward and two steps back — and we pay for both trips. Meanwhile the rest of the world isn't arguing about who's right. They're just quietly getting better. Singapore was a third-world country in 1965. Today it has the highest per-capita income on earth. They didn't get there by accident. They decided what kind of government they wanted — and they built it. I'm not smart enough to fix everything. But I do know this: unless we can agree on at least one thing, we will keep spiraling while others catch up. Here's the one thing I think we can all agree on: the American taxpayer is the largest employer on earth. There is no reason — none — that private companies should be able to outbid the American taxpayer for the smartest, most charismatic, hardest-working problem solvers in the job market. Some people think we need to blow the whole thing up and start over. I don't. I think we just need to shift the incentives — and let capitalism go to work for the American taxpayer. Do you respond to incentives? Would you work harder if they paid you more? Would it be easier to do the right thing if doing the wrong thing wasn't so financially tempting? YES? So would they. That's why this simple bill is so powerful. The PUBLIC TRUST Act is a four-part bill that shifts the financial incentives of public service — so the best people want the job, the ones already serving with integrity can do it without financial compromise, and the ones who show up to abuse it don't last long. Read it. Five minutes. Then decide if you agree. The full story — the bill, the plain-language summary, and answers to every objection you'll hear — is at publictrustact.com. This is not left. This is not right. This is just good sense applied to the most important organization in the world. Let's make them earn it. Henry Powers Business Owner, American Taxpayer P.S. — Forward this to five people who are tired of the same argument. The full bill, plain-language summary, and objections guide are all at publictrustact.com. That's the whole campaign.

I just signed something I think you should look at too. It's called the PUBLIC TRUST Act — a four-fix bill written by a business owner (not a politician) to make Washington work the way every business and household has to: pay good people well, hold them accountable, take big money out of elections. The pitch is short. The argument is honest. Read it. Then tell every candidate on your ballot to vote YES on it, as written. → https://publictrustact.com — Henry P.