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- From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.151725.8549@m5.harvard.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:17:25 GMT
- References: <15Dec92041802@miracle.com> <BZS.92Dec15211150@world.std.com> <4474@cvbnetPrime.COM>
- Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
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- Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- >In article <BZS.92Dec15211150@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
- >|>
- >|> From: phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill)
- >|> >If you have been reading the posts in this newsgroup, you'd see that most (not
- >|> >all) of the people here feel that the "blue laws" are out of date, and no
- >|> >longer needed.
-
- I don't think they were ever needed.
-
- >|> Doubtless, I am sure this list is well represented with people who
- >|> might man liquor stores on Sundays...let us allow the wolves to vote
- >|> the fate of the sheep.
-
- Are city and state governments well represented with people who might man
- liquor stores on Sundays? I suspect not.
-
- In my opinion, the blue laws increase unemployment. There are people out
- there who would gladly work Sunday, in order to to be able to work at all.
- Do you really think they're better off having every day off, instead?
- There are also people who would prefer to work Sunday instead of some other
- day of the week, and the blue laws discriminate against them. Blue laws
- sound nice when they're described in terms of protecting the workers, but I
- think a lot of workers would rather do without such protection.
-
- - Dave Borden
- borden@m5.harvard.edu
-