Washington, D.C. — With momentum growing at the state and local level to find new, innovative ways to challenge corporate power, the American Economic Liberties Project today released “Tools for Taking on Big Tech’s Economic Power: A Guide for State Lawmakers.” Authored by Economic Liberties’ Pat Garofalo, the toolkit acts as a roadmap for state lawmakers by detailing the problems caused by Big Tech, outlining potential policy solutions, and explaining how to respond to some of the critiques – both legitimate and not – from those invested in the status quo. The toolkit also highlights legislation that has already been introduced at the state level by lawmakers ready to tackle the challenges posed by Big Tech that can serve as a model for other policymakers.

“State lawmakers do not have to wait for Washington, D.C., to tackle the problems Big Tech corporations cause in their own communities,” said Pat Garofalo, Director of State and Local Policy at the American Economic Liberties Project. “They have significant powers, today, to do something about the power and negative effects of Big Tech, from taking away its subsidies, to reforming state antitrust law, to regulating online commerce to make it more fair for local independent businesses and entrepreneurs.”

“Tools for Taking on Big Tech’s Economic Power” outlines eight key issue areas and policy recommendations for state and local leaders, recommending that they:

• Regulate App Store Dominance to Help Small and Mid-Sized Businesses;
• Adopt Common Carrier Rules to Stop Big Tech’s Self-Preferencing;
• Stop Subsidizing Big Tech’s Expansion;
• Implement an “Abuse of Dominance” Standard for State Antitrust Law;
• Cap Delivery App Corporation Fees and Ban Abusive Tactics That Harm Restaurants;
• Adopt a “Right to Repair” Law for Consumer Electronics;
• Tax Digital Ad Revenue; and
• Provide Antitrust Enforcers With More Resources.

Read “Tools for Taking on Big Tech’s Economic Power” here.

Join Economic Liberties’ discussion with state & local leaders about addressing corporate power today at 11 am ET here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.