[lotsofpulp]

It's insane to force businesses to take on the government's responsibilities (providing food/shelter/income/energy security).

A buyer and seller should be free to start and stop buying and selling whenever they want, absent contracts stating otherwise.

The government should be there to directly support all of the people, not to police and cajole businesses to support some of the people that happened to be hired by a business.

[niek_pas]

I completely agree, and apparently in California this is already the case --- I had no idea. In most contexts, though, I'd argue governments fall down on this task completely and people are, unfortunately, still very dependent on their employer. Same-day termination seems very socially risky in those cases.

[rwmj]

The US government doesn't exactly go out of its way to support people either.