Regulations vs Employment

[Crazed Rabbit]

The problem with food trucks is that by parking right outside a store, they essentially get the benefit of a great location but don't have to pay for it, while the store owners do. It is essentially camping on your property but legal because the road is technically public. Once again, a one sided story from anti-regulation hounds.

This is ridiculous. The food trucks have to pay for parking, and since that's all they use, that's all they have to pay for. The restaurants have no legal right to the road nor what happens on it. What you dismiss as a technicality is the most important aspect that undermines your whole argument.

It hurts store owners who pay for property that others are using for free.

The store owners Do. Not. Own. The. Road.

If the restauranteers don't like the situation they should respond by offering a better services to customers. If they can't then the government shouldn't get involved to protect them by regulating new businesses out of existence. Maybe most restaurants can't compete. So what? The government shouldn't protect dying industries.

CR