You don't own your business
Posted by AmericanGreatness 9 years, 2 months ago to Politics
The issue getting all the attention is religion, but what's getting lost in the this debate is the property rights.
What right does the government, or anyone for that matter, have to tell a business owner who he/she must serve. A business owner should be able to deny service to anyone for any reason, period.
If the business is negatively impacted, the business owner must decide if his decision not to serve is worth the loss business. If the government can demand I serve a customer against my wishes, I don't really own my business, I merely manage it for the government.
What right does the government, or anyone for that matter, have to tell a business owner who he/she must serve. A business owner should be able to deny service to anyone for any reason, period.
If the business is negatively impacted, the business owner must decide if his decision not to serve is worth the loss business. If the government can demand I serve a customer against my wishes, I don't really own my business, I merely manage it for the government.
Yes!
Changing from passive to active voice, you said "should the gov't allow me to discriminate?" Another way to say that is "should we allow the gov't to force us to serve customers we don't want to serve?" or "do we have a natural right to choose when to sell something and when not to?"
From a practical standpoint, who wants to force these religious nuts and rednecks do business with them? Do they want to pay money to someone who doesn't want them as a customer. I assume it will go both ways. These bigots can make us do business with them. So you've got people who don't like one another forced to do business, thanks to gov't.
It makes no flipping sense when most of us are out here looking for more customers.
Please just leave the rednecks alone.