Letter: Prop. 206 will help small business

Re: the Nov. 1 article "Jerry and Kathy Sullivan: Prop 206 hurts small businesses"

In an op-ed restaurant owners bravely opposes a bill that would raise their employee’s wages. Bravely, I say with due disrespect, because in this country poverty is defined by an income actually greater than a full-time minimum wage job.

Higher wages would cause the restaurateurs either to raise prices or to cut profit. There is a tidy little microcosm here: for “restaurateurs, customers, and employees” read “business, workers, and the public” and you see that if prices are raised the public suffers, and if prices are not raised business suffers. There is only one solution: if wages are raised more workers eat out and eventually workers, business and the public all benefit.

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The concept can be generalized.

Lindrith Cordell

Southwest side