LYNN – John’s Roast Beef owner Taso Nikolakopoulos said there is a perfect storm of expenses forming, and it’s going to hit small businesses hard, which is why he does not support Question 4 on the ballot.”Personally, I’m against it,” said Nikolakopoulos, who is also chairman of the Lynn Area Chamber of Commerce. “It’s a double-edged sword.”Question 4, if approved would give every employee across the commonwealth the opportunity to earn sick time.”But it’s not only earned sick time,” Nikolakopoulos said. “We also have minimum wage now, and there’s major utility costs coming. It’s not just one issue. Small businesses are being faced with so many extra costs now.”Nikolakopoulos said the chamber has yet to take up the issue, but it will be a future agenda item. He said his family has run John’s Roast Beef for 40 years, and they have never asked an employee who has called in sick to come to work, Nikolakopoulos said.”Now they want to force us to offer sick time,” he said. “It will be manipulated and hard to track down.”He called it just another way for the government to step in the way of small businesses.”It’s just never been an issue for us,” Nikolakopoulos said.Rick Starbard, School Committee member and owner of Rick’s Auto Collision Inc., said the measure wouldn’t affect him because he already offers his employees sick/personal days, but he does see how it could hurt smaller businesses.”If someone wanted to open a small sub shop, this could negatively impact them,” he said. “I think in the case of small businesses, especially those that hire minimum wage, stepping-stone-type positions, it could have a negative impact.”The Retailers Association of Massachusetts is also against the measure. As spelled out in an argument presented in the ballot question booklet, if approved, Massachusetts would be the first state to require small employers to provide up to a week of mandatory paid sick time and family leave to all employees. The association argues that it could be costly and isn’t practical for customer service industries or those with mandatory staffing levels.Not all business owners are against the question.Sarah Treiber and Ashley Pierce run Busy Bee Nursery, and they chose to offer sick days as well as paid holiday time because they remember what it was like not to have that benefit.”We chose to pay all of our employees, both full-time and part-time, for every school holiday, a week vacation at Christmas time as well as three personal days and two sick,” they wrote in an email. “We both worked at schools that did not pay us for sick or personal time and ended up having to either go to work sick or take a day unpaid. We believe that our employees more than deserve this time off and should not have to stress out about being forced to make this choice.”Both said they would vote yes on Question 4 because they strongly believe that small business owners should have regulated sick days for employees.