Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Sunday Shopping Message-ID: <3812@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 14:26:58 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.3812 Posted: Tue Jun 4 14:26:58 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 03:45:04 EDT References: <646@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 54 Note that since this is politics, I rm'ed religion and legal from the list of newsgroups. The gentleman at whuxl demonstrates two things: The first ( semi-reasonable comment) is that he suffers from Sunday shoppers, because he lives in an area with a lot of shopping centers. He argues that he should have one day a week that he doesn't have to fight the traffic on Rt. 17. I do wonder why this person lives in Paramus, and how much he or she participated in the legal and political mechanism when all those stores were built... The second thing demonstrated is that he thinks that people who shop on Sunday "guzzle down junk food and buy all those things that are necessary, until they're out of style next week". That's just bloody offensive. I'm a strong advocate of sunday sales, because I have to work 5 days a week, as does my SO. Ergo, places that are only open on Saturday (or worse, Mon - Fri) are difficult to get to, assuming that I'd like to do more with my Saturdays than go shopping for things like 2x4's, drywall, paint, landscape timbers, car parts, house parts, food, and so on. Places like legal offices (a passport office comes to mind) are even more discriminatory, because they REQUIRE me to take time off work to go to that office. Face it. Sunday sales laws assume that one adult in every family doesn't work in industry ( keeping a house is bloody well working, so I refuse to say "doesn't work") and cause much more than mere inconvenience for people who aren't in that catagory. Given that the percentage of such families is growing, it's clear that Sunday sales laws are now useless, counterproductive, and discriminate against thouse who contribute most to the economy. That, by itself, is a clear argument for the elimination of Sunday sales laws. If you want to close Paramus on Monday, Tuesday, or something like that, go ahead. I'm sorry you won't be home to enjoy it, but I'll be at work, too, and not out there being discriminated against by Sunday sales laws. (Of course, the moral and ethical arguments against such relics as Sunday sales laws are even more compelling, but ethics has certainly never had much effect on most of the contributors to net.politics. Notice that I said "most".) -- TEDDY BEARS HAVE LIMITED PATIENCE! THEY DO EVENTUALLY GET HUNGRY! "Let us remember my cat, Geoffrey, ..." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj