Posted on 04/04/2024 3:02:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
When in doubt, blame businesses for closing their doors instead of the crime that has made it unsustainable for them to operate. San Francisco might even do you one better: force the businesses to stay open anyway.
One of the 11 members of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is floating reviving a vetoed 1984 law that would force grocery stores to stay open against their will. Supervisor Dean Preston calls it a “good idea” because of the risk of “food insecurity” that comes with grocery stores closing.
The law in question would require stores to give a whopping six-month notice before closing, would force them to meet with community members (i.e. activists who will shame them for being greedy corporations), and would mandate that they “explore” opening a replacement store to make up for the one they are closing. In other words, San Francisco would be forcing grocery stores to stay open while running at a loss and putting their own employees in danger due to crime, all because San Francisco just can’t stomach locking up the criminals causing these problems in the first place.
On the bright side, this may just be a worse idea than Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposing government-run grocery stores, moving San Francisco closer to the title of worst-run city in the country. But this is not a solution to the problem. The problem is that crime has made running several businesses unsustainable, whether through the losses that come with rampant shoplifting, the safety of employees being put in jeopardy, or both.
Forcing grocery stores to become charities for six months while a bunch of activists complain is not going to stop stores from closing. In fact, it would make them far more hesitant to open new locations (or the alternative ones the law mandates they consider), knowing that they could be held hostage by the city government for six months if their business becomes unsustainable.
If San Francisco pursues this, it would simply be a punishment levied against businesses that are only responding to the terrible circumstances they have been put in by criminals and by San Francisco’s lax attitude toward them. Forcing grocery stores to stay open temporarily doesn’t actually solve any problems, because it isn’t designed to solve a real problem.
Isn’t forcing someone to work the very definition of slavery?
Democrats always begin with a suggestion and propaganda news stories, then mandatory rules, then enforcement by armed government agents or police.
Libertarian author Robert Ringer went through this and described it. He firmly said the government always had armed and deadly force behind their smiling harmless looks. IRS, FBI, ICE and deputies and police.
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors G’mTHO!
Dicktaters every where we turn.
Those stores just thinking of closing should close now. Others should stop paying property tax.
This is why socialism always devolves into communism. Always!
Call me a dreamer
Ain’t communism grand?!
Food insecurity. Not enough inventory control personnel.
Believe me I get i.
But we do have an historically conservative court where it could matter.
Rand was a Prophet.
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“Rand was a Prophet.”
So was Orwell.
5.56mm
Why stop at grocery stores? Why not demand that any business wishing to operate in S.F. must also open a branch within certain areas. Banks, doctors, accountants, jewelers, contractors, hardware stores, clothing stores. Why should they be exempt? People worry about food deserts but imagine the emotional toll of an engagement ring desert. You can get all huffy over lack of access to California grown avocados but what about indignation of having to go far afield to buy an extension cord?
I have never read Atlas Shrugged, but I am aware that leftist governments create regulations to create a reason to acquire ownership on behalf of the state.
Probably the thieves would simply change their method of five finger discount to outright armed robbery.
There was a story of a young woman “Krystal Bayron-Nieves was saving money to go to nursing school” She needed money to help her family and to improve her life. She was increasingly afraid for her life. Finally she was brutally killed one night.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/nyc-teens-shooting-death-ended-her-quest-for-american-dream/
When the socialist Dems force people to risk their lives in Dem cities with many persons who are ruthless violent criminals aren’t they responsible for the coming deaths and rapes?
Like the judges who let the thugs out to find new victims they will say “What? Not us. We’re sheltered from prosecution.”
That right there is the primary problem plaguing our nation.. A major shortage of leadership. Descent folks don't want anything to do with the slimy liberals they would need to deal with on a daily bases. So, it seems no one with "true grit" will seek the job. And unlike Trump, they don't have the millions of bucks to fight the legal battles our own damn government would throw at them. Too bad for us.
The store stays open with empty shelves. One doesn't even need employees since there would be nothing to buy. One may want to pay for security though.
Surely, there is an equivalent on the left coast, right?
So all stores announce closure now.
Just leave doors open to empty store and leave the state
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