Laws for handicapped people do affect non handicapped people.
A restaurant that has only a few tables and a small space does not have room or renovation money to install handicapped facilities.
And small stores which are required to widen aisles to accommodate wheelchairs
will have to eliminate some shelves which in turn makes them far less competitive
and could possibly force them out of business.
I have seriously suffered all through my life because of minimum wage laws, from unions and their influence.
Way back, when I was a teenager I worked part time after public school (My family and thus I too, was not religious at the time in any way, we did not even know from it)
and they started me at a lower training wage which was fine with me because I was still earning more money then I had before I started working, and did not need rent money.
But I ‘did’ need the experience and was grateful to get it.
The problem was that after two months the state law required them to raise my wage to minimum and to put me in the union.
The business management decided I was not good enough for them to be committed to
paying the extra and giving me union immunity from being fired and other remedies they would otherwise have against employees who did not work out or were not worth such wages.
So they fired me.
After that, I never was able to keep any job, long enough to gain the necessary experience to make me a valuable employee and move up the business world.
I have finally achieved some small measure of understanding what a boss wants and how to do it properly, but it too far too long.
Now I am not too far from retirement age and have no prospects of
starting out at any new job and earning enough to pay my expenses while working let alone in retirement.
I now have no prospects for the future and no hope.
Minimum wage is a scam as are today’s unions.
If a person is worth a certain wage, they will earn it.
With artificially raised minimum wages employers simply demand that every new hire, has plenty of experience which means beginners never get the chance to get that experience.
Unions pretend to be for the average worker but they too will not let the average worker into the union, they ate elitist closed clubs which only a privileged few, can ever enter.
It is easier to get into an exclusive private school then into any union where someone can get high pay, just because they are in that union.
The more government stays out of business and not just stops new regulations but eliminates many that are already in place, the better business and the better off, the average worker will be.