Let's bring back Sunday Closing (Blue Laws) in America ! (Good reason) (unemployment rate, highway)
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After visiting, shopping and traveling thru Bergen County, NJ (home to 5 shopping malls and thousands of other businesses right across NYC), I was very jealous and impressed how everything was closed on Sundays except restaurants, grocery stores & entertainment places, and they had it since 1950s voted by residents numerous times thru referendum to keep them.
From the facebook group of ' We support the amazing Blue Laws of Bergen County, NJ ', this is their reason for it:
- A guaranteed (weekend) day of rest/break for workers, small business owners', and local residents.
- No competition, especially from big box stores that forces many employees to work, and now small businesses must remain open.
- No horrible traffic congestion.
- Quiet and Peaceful Sundays.
- Lower crime rate, pollution, and litter in our towns and streets.
- Better infrastructure (+ less money needed to fix our roads and highways)
- Higher Quality of life & Lower unemployment rate (Just like some nations with similar or stricter blue laws, such as Germany, Austria, Norway and Switzerland)
- Americans are known for unfortunately working very long hours with few or no days off, unlike other western nations. It is selfish, bad, and dangerous for ourselves and society.
Bergen County towns (especially Paramus) still make more money in annual retail than any other town and place in the nation all in 6 days.
Malls and stores are open for very long hours anyway (most until 9 - 10 pm Mon - Sat), and it is more than enough. Family time is more important!
PS: U.S. Supreme Court have held any blue law as constitutional due to secular reason (every time it has been taking to court).
After visiting, shopping and traveling thru Bergen County, NJ (home to 5 shopping malls and thousands of other businesses right across NYC), I was very jealous and impressed how everything was closed on Sundays except restaurants, grocery stores & entertainment places, and they had it since 1950s voted by residents numerous times thru referendum to keep them.
From the facebook group of ' We support the amazing Blue Laws of Bergen County, NJ ', this is their reason for it:
- A guaranteed (weekend) day of rest/break for workers, small business owners', and local residents.
- No competition, especially from big box stores that forces many employees to work, and now small businesses must remain open.
- No horrible traffic congestion.
- Quiet and Peaceful Sundays.
- Lower crime rate, pollution, and litter in our towns and streets.
- Better infrastructure (+ less money needed to fix our roads and highways)
- Higher Quality of life & Lower unemployment rate (Just like some nations with similar or stricter blue laws, such as Germany, Austria, Norway and Switzerland)
- Americans are known for unfortunately working very long hours with few or no days off, unlike other western nations. It is selfish, bad, and dangerous for ourselves and society.
Bergen County towns (especially Paramus) still make more money in annual retail than any other town and place in the nation all in 6 days.
Malls and stores are open for very long hours anyway (most until 9 - 10 pm), and it is more than enough.
PS: U.S. Supreme Court have held any blue law as constitutional due to secular reason (all four times it has been taking to court).
How about your do what you want on Sunday and let everyone else do what they want? What a terrible idea.
Giving holy rollers a bad name, this is a backhanded way of saying we need to go to Church (forcing your beliefs in a guise of practicality).
PS: U.S. Supreme Court have held any blue law as constitutional due to secular reason (all four times it has been taking to court).
I'll take your word for it, but it should be retested in court and hopefully any rational judge would find this as unconstitutional and ridiculous as Sunday liquor laws.
I'll take your word for it, but it should be retested in court and hopefully any rational judge would find this as unconstitutional and ridiculous as Sunday liquor laws.
So you are trying to persecute and oppress the majority for giving secular reasons?
Why Sunday and not Saturday? Saturday is the official Sabbath day of rest, not Sunday.
What does religion have to do with blue laws?
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