david is the president of cranston material handling equipment corporation. it's a third generation small business, and it was founded in 1957 by david's grandfather. today david leads that company, a company he's worked at since 1983, so for 35 years he has been there. today he leads a team of seven full-time employees and two part-time employees. truly a small family-owned business. cranston material sells and installs material handling and storage equipment to manufacturing companies, including very large manufacturing companies, and their products and services help these manufacturers to store and lift products in the storage process. it's items like cabinets and containers and conveyors and cranes and dock equipment, that sort of equipment. well, as i know the presiding officer understands very well, it's small businesses like this that really make up the backbone of our economy and the backbone of our communities. what is it that david cranston had to share with us as a witness before our committee? he shared the story of how our tax reform from late las