WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 22, 2026) – West Virginia small business owner and NFIB member Michael Ervin joined Markie Martin on NewsNation Thursday to discuss the state of the small business economy and how the 20% Small Business Tax Deduction has created certainty for his Main Street business.

Watch Ervin’s full interview here.

“We had a lot of uncertainty for the past five, six years. We’ve dealt with a lot of inflation. We did get some hope with the Big, Beautiful Bill. There was a [20% Small Business Tax Deduction] made permanent for small businesses like mine and so that gave us some clarity and some breathing room.”

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“I do love what I do mainly because my business allows us to build community while roasting and brewing our coffee and that’s always been our tag line in our mission statement. And so, I still love what we do, and I never will stop loving it. But you know, we have a great community. Thankfully, we have a lot of folks that still want to support local as opposed to our mega corporations that are competitors. And so, I do have hope in that you know, I think one of the things I’d love to see Congress do is raise the [20% Small Business Tax Deduction] to 23%, which would give small business owners, in particular like mine, more of a level playing field with mega corporations.”

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