Letter to the editor: If liquor stores can open, why not other Pa. businesses?

The decision to allow some Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores to reopen (“Pennsylvania to reopen some liquor stores for curbside sales”) is good news. Common sense is prevailing when it comes to this shutdown. Yes, many businesses can open with enhanced procedures in place.

But after it sank in, I realized something. There are thousands of Pennsylvania store owners who had to lay off most of their staffs and see their business revenue plummet because of a shutdown order by Gov. Tom Wolf. Their customers want what they provide, but they cannot open their business to supply them. They petition the administration to reopen, and the vast majority are denied.

How hypocritical is it that when the business in question is run by the state that reasons it was closed in the first place go out the door? It is funny, when the government is the one losing money, stores are miraculously allowed to reopen when thousands of Pennsylvania businesses are not allowed and may never reopen.

Wolf and other leaders in Harrisburg: If Pennsylvania’s Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores can slowly start to open, then most Pennsylvania businesses should be allowed as well.

Michael Tarle

McCandless