Rep. Michael Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs, a supporter of the ban, called the protest “pretty much useless.”
“Civil disobedience has been used for much greater causes,” he said Wednesday. Business owners who have lost business because of the smoking ban “should look at ways to appeal to nonsmokers.”
So this POS just ADMITTED the bans hurt businesses.
Nice catch.
“Civil disobedience has been used for much greater causes,” he said Wednesday. Business owners who have lost business because of the smoking ban “should look at ways to appeal to nonsmokers.”
So this POS just ADMITTED the bans hurt businesses."
As a bookkeeper, I knew that a smoking ban would hurt business.
First, in order to have separate smoking and non-smoking areas, bars and restaurants spent THOUSANDS of dollars to re-design and re-construct their air-conditioning and heat systems. That money investment hasn't even been fully depreciated in their bookkeeping records. Now they are losing even more money trying to run a business.
Let the businesses decide: Let them have large signs on the front of the building:
We smoke in this business.
If you wish, come on in.
If you don't like smoking, please go elsewhere.
Plain and simple.
If I am old enough to drink, I should be able to read the signs perfectly.
If I am working in such an establishment and I don't like smoking- I will GO GET ANOTHER JOB!!!!!
Yearts ago, I used to work in a tire store. I coughed more there than any other location I ever worked.
“Civil disobedience has been used for much greater causes,” he said Wednesday."
What could be greater than private property rights and free market capitalism? Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Rep. Michael Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs, a supporter of the ban, called the protest “pretty much useless.”
“Civil disobedience has been used for much greater causes,” he said Wednesday. Business owners who have lost business because of the smoking ban “should look at ways to appeal to nonsmokers.”
So this POS just ADMITTED the bans hurt businesses.
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Dems just hate free markets.
All they had to do was ALLOW businesses who CHOOSE to make their places of business smoking or non-smoking.
They want everyone to fit into THEIR sensitive, anal world view. They want to protect the "air" and the "environment".
The places getting hurt the most are the regular Joe shot and beer joints, the local pubs, etc. Since they can't individually lecture all of these "brutes" and "hussies" who smoke, drink beer and play darts and pool they imperiously impose their lifestyle on them through laws, "for their own good".
This is the genesis and thinking behind these laws in a nutshell.