[Texas Eagle]

With all these states shutting down businesses and events, how long before those states start complaining about the lack of revenue coming in to their Treasuries?

And what remedy will they demand?

[bgill]

The CEOs, instead of begging for handouts should be thanking their lucky stars they won’t be getting sued for having virus infected places of businesses and products.

[Svartalfiar]

With all these states shutting down businesses and events, how long before those states start complaining about the lack of revenue coming in to their Treasuries?

And what remedy will they demand?

Well, considering that forcing a business to close for a certain amount of time is essentially a subset of eminent domain, whichever entity (city, State) is forcing the closures should be responsible for providing appropriate compensation for such action.

And it's not just those businesses. What about all their employees? I would assume my above statement would apply to payroll, but how does that work out for part-timers or freelance/contractors? Any suppliers are going to be a gray area for recompense. What happens to all the businesses that aren't force-closed, but depend on the ones that are? Delivery truckers, food/beverage/beer distributors and wholesalers, farmers, etc etc? I know we don't like Hollywood around here, but force-closing theatres hits all of them indirectly also. Surprised they aren't complaining about this.