Posted on 06/11/2010 6:54:43 AM PDT by laotzu
The effort to ban smoking in all workplaces across the city appears to be going up in smoke, as prominent advertising executive Lionel Sosa tonight will brand the proposal as racist.
"The proposed ordinance is economically discriminatory to members of the Hispanic community," Sosa will tell council, according to a text of his letter obtained by 1200 WOAI news. "When you look at the population of the small area bars, poll halls, and VFW halls that populate our community, you will see the overwhelming majority of those that will see their freedom of choice stripped from them by this ordinance are Hispanic-owned businesses."
Prominent Texas economist Ray Perryman has also written a letter to city council that blasts an Institute for Health Promotion Research Study which concludes that a smoking ban would have no impact on the operations of the businesses which now allow smoking, but would be forced to change policies under the proposed law.
"When laws are suddenly changed, winners and losers are randomly created through a process that has nothing to do with business acumen," Perryman writes. "Such capriciousness discourages investment and creates losses for certain enterprises as a result of the change even in a case where overall spending remains unchanged or even increases."
Perryman says 'capricious' changes in smoking policy would discourage investment, reduce the profitability of businesses, and lead to layoffs.
Both Perryman and Sosa say that the decision on whether to patronize a smoking or a non smoking establishment should be made by the customer, not by government.
"The basic theory of consumer behavior revolves around the actions of consumers in making purchasing choices to maximize their level of satisfaction within the constraints of their financial capacity," Perryman writes. "When the set of available alternatives is restricted, overall satisfaction is lowered. In addition to causing economic and fiscal losses to the City of san Antonio, arbitrary harms to existing businesses and potential reductions in local competitiveness, the ordinance has the effect of reducing economic welfare for local residents."
Sosa agrees.
"Expansion of this ordinance will erode sales tax income from the City's coffers," Sosa says. "Please let San Antonio be a leader, not a follower, of the erosion of our remaining freedoms."
The idea to ban smoking entirely inside all workplaces, including restaurants, bars, pool and BINGO halls, VFW and American Legion halls, and even cigar bars is clearly losing steam at City Hall, which Councilman Ray Lopez now opposing it.
"I think what we have in place now, is a pretty good ordinance," he said.
Women and minorities hardest hit, PING!
IS this SA South Africa or Santa Ana?
Somebody must have told Lionel that people who roll their own will be asked to show their papers.
or san antonio or south austin or...
So if some regulation of liberty affected only white people, it’d be just fine and dandy, wouldn’t it?
Even when a demographic becomes the new majority and owns businesses, it’s ultimately “racist” to enact laws.
Just to show you how crazy & insane these liberals are, California is pushing the same anti-smoking nazism and yet at the same time is pushing for legalizing pot. I guess it depends on what is being smoked....
Sorry. Bad etiquette on my part.
San Antonio.
This whole minority/majority business is a stupid, transparent smoke screen for discriminating against white people and in favor of others.
This can be seen by the working, real world definition of “diversity”. 90% “minority” people in any group makes that group, in the left’s eyes, “more diverse” than a group consisting of equal representation of all “races”.
I love it when liberals collide with liberal tenets. Kind of like getting hit by friendly fire. LOL
Identity politics isn’t about advancing a demographic. It’s about pushing the liberal agenda.
When a minority is conservative, that person is of no use to The Party and is considered a “traitor” to his race or to her sex.
Down is up. Crosses are obscene in California and not to be seen in public but homosexuals openly parade in civic funded festivals.
True enough. As well as when that demographics become a wealthy college professor, mayor, governor, and President, it’ll still the white police who will be the racist.
TKS, not really your fault but I went to the source link and they don’t do a very good job of telling you either.
I love it when liberals collide with liberal tenets. Kind of like getting hit by friendly fire. LOL
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Around here, the idea that smoking in public should be a God given right is extremely popular.
Interesting alliances are now being formed: Hispanics crying ‘racism’ and FReepers who detest nanny staters who want to take away the right to smoke in restraunts.
Isaiah 5:8- especially 5:20 speaks of the age in which we live.
20 What sorrow for those who say
that evil is good and good is evil,
that dark is light and light is dark,
that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
21 What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes
and think themselves so clever.
The effort to ban smoking in all workplaces across the city appears to be going up in smoke, as prominent advertising executive Lionel Sosa tonight will brand the proposal as racist.
Why didn’t WE think of that?
It’s the right of business owners to decide if they will permit smoking inside their establishment.
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