On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 5:27:15 AM UTC+8, David P. wrote:
> Not Enough Politicians Come From Business
> Letters, May 4, 2022, WSJ
>
> Why does the California legislature propose so many laws that make
> no economic sense? (“California’s French Workweek,” Review & Outlook,
> April 16). Maybe because a majority of our representatives have never
> run a business? Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who is proposing the
> 32-hour workweek, was an activist before taking office. Out of 58
> Democrats in the California Assembly, at least a dozen have a similar
> background. I found only four Democrats who ran businesses before
> taking office. Attorneys, teachers and government administrators
> dominate the rest.
>
> Our local paper invited two columnists to present arguments for
> and against the workweek proposal. The one who argued against it,
> to my surprise, is the most liberal columnist. He spent a year
> running a small business.
>
> California will continue to drive businesses to other states until
> we replace the utopian idealists in the state legislature with people
> who understand economics and what drives jobs and higher tax revenues.
> --Oliver Watson, Orange, Calif.
>
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-four-day-workweek-11651613122

If employed people want to work 35 hour per week, then small business people in operating their small businesses should be compensated at overtime rate by the government for having to put in their extra hours for the running of their small businesses to more than 35 hours per week, which they have to work in order to provide such services like restaurants, F&B and convenience shops and services to its customers.

The compensation is to cover the cost of rent and utilities, labor and salary of proprietors, too. The compensation is also to cover other overheads such as business insurance, business license fee, and van's operating cost, etc. All these costs are associated with the overall running costs of their small business. If they are not compensated, they will not make enough to cover these variable and fixed costs from their business to cover the overall costs of their business.