Small business owners face big problems | Reagan

Walters Bicycles in Ship Bottom, N.J., is open for outdoor service only, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.comBy Michael ReaganI feel terribly sorry for the hundred thousand Americans who’ve lost their lives to the coronavirus.I also feel sorry for all the small business owners in the country who have become innocent victims of the government’s mishandled war on COVID-19.They worked long and hard to start up their local restaurants, coffee shops, clothing stores, hair salons, health spas, book stores and pet grooming shops.But in just three months their livelihoods – and the livelihoods of millions of their employees – were destroyed by the unnecessarily severe shutdown of most of our booming national economy.An MSNBC business reporter I heard being interviewed on the radio predicted that 100,000 small businesses across the country will file for bankruptcy and never come back.How are the owners of those doomed enterprises going to pay for their homes? Where will they find work in a seriously crippled economy? Amazon an
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