[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 3, 2017)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 20807-20808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-09079]


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                Proclamation 9601 of April 28, 2017

                
Small Business Week, 2017

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                During Small Business Week, we celebrate our Nation's 
                small business owners, whose entrepreneurship and hard 
                work bring jobs and prosperity to our communities. 
                Small business owners embody the American pioneering 
                spirit and remind us that determination can turn 
                aspiration into achievement. This week, we affirm our 
                commitment to removing government barriers to the 
                success of American small businesses.

                Small businesses are an economic force in this country, 
                and have grown by nearly 40 percent since 1982 despite 
                often facing regulatory headwinds. They employ almost 
                58 million Americans, accounting for about 50 percent 
                of all private-sector jobs in the United States. Our 
                communities depend on the success of small businesses. 
                More than 99 percent of all employer firms in the 
                country are small businesses and in recent years, too 
                many of them have been crushed by overwhelming Federal 
                regulations. At the beginning of my Administration, I 
                met with small business owners who continue to struggle 
                under too many burdensome regulations. I have already 
                signed legislation disapproving many excessive and 
                unreasonable regulations and issued several Executive 
                Orders to address other overreaching rules. These 
                actions will free our Nation's entrepreneurs to spend 
                more time creating jobs and less time navigating the 
                Federal bureaucracy.

                My Administration is also working to ensure our 
                Nation's trade deals establish favorable conditions for 
                small businesses to export their goods and services. 
                With a level playing field on the international stage, 
                America's small businesses will lead an export revival 
                that brings jobs and wealth back to our country.

                Our Nation also deserves a tax system that works for--
                not against--small business owners. One of the biggest 
                problems facing our small businesses is an unduly 
                complicated, and often unfair, tax system. Tax reform 
                will unleash a new wave of investment, innovation, and 
                entrepreneurship in our country. Americans will keep 
                more money in their pockets, leaving them with the 
                resources they need to expand their businesses and hire 
                more workers.

                America's small business owners transform ideas into 
                reality. They are a strong testament to the 
                opportunities a market economy affords. During this 
                week, we recognize the incredible contributions small 
                businesses make to our country and pledge to foster the 
                conditions that enable them to prosper and thrive.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim April 30 through May 
                6, 2017, as Small Business Week. I call upon all 
                Americans to recognize the critical contributions of 
                America's entrepreneurs and small business owners as 
                they grow our Nation's economy.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                first.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2017-09079
Filed 5-2-17; 11:15 am]
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