Justice on another’s dime

Regarding “Sick and safe leave right for Spokane (Jan. 23)”: I can’t remember reading a more condescending piece of propaganda than that written by Carol Krawczyk and Marilyn Watkins.

For the record, business owners have always stood up loud and clear against government intrusion and mandates against their businesses, including wages, health care and burdensome regulations. Obviously that doesn’t seem to matter, because they keep coming back again and again until they get a compliant, like-minded council to pass it anyway.

Their implication is that small-business owners are too stupid to understand the cost/benefit of paid sick leave to their business, but once it’s implemented we’ll get it. How patronizing. Small-business owners have become apathetic because they don’t have a voice, and it was apparent this policy would pass regardless of what they said.

I’m tired of socialist liberals imposing their will on businesses. Either they are too successful and therefore greedy capitalists worthy of scorn, or they are too small to afford benefits that make them non-competitive, and are therefore not viable and should go away; except for construction companies, they’re exempt for some reason.

It’s always easy to achieve social justice when it’s someone else’s money.

David Tegge

Spokane