OPINION:
The facts and data have not justified Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s tyrannical strangulation of the Massachusetts economy. And the attitude that said strangulation can be dragged out for months is recklessly callous.
Moreover, small businesses and the jobs they create are the livelihoods of many people. It is how they survive. Denying American citizens the right to work is unquestionably abusive, an undeniable misuse of power and clearly unconstitutional. It is my belief that Mr. Baker has been responding to the pandemic in more of a panic-stricken fashion than an evidence-based one.
Not only do many facets of the governor’s emergency decrees violate the constitutional rights of small-business owners and Massachusetts residents, his four-phase economy reopening process lacks basic logic and common sense.
RON BEATY
Barnstable County commissioner
West Barnstable, Mass.
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