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$15 minimum wage shutters old-school Brooklyn diner
New York Post ^ | July 22, 2016 | 10:47pm | Jennifer Bain and Natalie O’Neill

Posted on 07/23/2016 9:46:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Say goodbye to the late-night fries and gravy.

One of the last classic Brooklyn diners is biting the dust — and soon they’ll all die off due to the state’s minimum-wage increase and other factors, restaurateurs and economic experts predicted Friday.

The owner of the four-decade-old, 24-hour greasy spoon, Del Rio Diner in Gravesend, said his place is closing down because he can’t afford to pay cooks $15 an hour, along with rising rents and expensive Health Department inspection fees. …

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; brooklyn; cuomo; deblasio; delriodiner; fightfor15; gravesend; healthdepartment; minimumwage; newyork; nyc; theend; urban
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To: bgill

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61 posted on 07/23/2016 12:06:54 PM PDT by fungoking (40% share for a TV show is a hit; in the 2016 election it a loss in a landslide, hello Pres Hillary)
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To: Olog-hai

At least, so far, the private sector can adjust its costs on margins the federal government cannot control, like higher qualifications or more capital-intensive methods of production and service delivery when the minimum wage rises. So far.


62 posted on 07/23/2016 1:17:00 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: ctdonath2

Beautifully stated.


63 posted on 07/23/2016 1:17:50 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Fiji Hill

The same thing is happening here in In my mid-size Southern college town. Many of the mid-level, full-service, privately owned restaurants are closing and we are left with either fast-food and fast-casual chains or high-end, white-table-cloth restaurants.


64 posted on 07/23/2016 1:27:35 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Olog-hai

Shutting down small businesses is partnof the plan. Gotta makenpeople dependent on government so they have to vote Dem.


65 posted on 07/23/2016 1:47:30 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Kickass Conservative

Probably worse than that. In the mid-90’s, I had a studio and paid my help $6 per hour with no bene’s. It actually cost me $10 per hour...then I found Freep!!!!


66 posted on 07/23/2016 1:48:23 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 (QUESTION obama's AUTHORITY)
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To: Olog-hai

Shutting down small businesses is partnof the plan. Gotta makenpeople dependent on government so they have to vote Dem.


67 posted on 07/23/2016 1:48:26 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: mazda77

One cannot guarantee a return on investment if it is something the public may reject. And of course, too many people out of work equals no returns; the government cannot sustain the living of non-workers indefinitely. States still do fail.


68 posted on 07/23/2016 2:31:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Eh?

There is no such thing as a guaranteed income that can be “done right”. The right thing to do is to eschew socialism and all of its micromanaging regulations, so business and agriculture (the latter especially being the source of self-employment) can be free to flourish.


69 posted on 07/23/2016 2:33:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

That’s the ideal.

However, N. American agriculture is being propped up by importation of cheap labour. As you know, that problem is so great in the USA, that it threatens your way of life — if not your sovereignty. Agribusiness continues to flourish, as a result of the “cheap-labour express”, while self-employment in agriculture continues to decline.

Ever-more-rapidly-increasing automation threatens millions of jobs in the service industries (among other things). Increasing the minimum wage, in order to achieve greater “equality” of income distribution, will just eliminate low-wage jobs that much faster. (I’m not a Luddite — I know that all past advances in automation have led directly to greater general prosperity — except for those who lose their jobs & cannot be retrained for newer hi-tech ones.)

Welfare, as we know it today, is anathema to the work ethic. More of that would be just making a bad situation worse.

A guarantee income would enable and encourage everyone to earn more by working. The minimum wages wouldn’t have to be raised, in the name of “equality” — actually, minimum-income laws would be unnecessary.

Sometimes there is no “best” solution — but, a guaranteed annual income would be a “less bad” solution than all the others.


70 posted on 07/23/2016 3:07:50 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

What looks like is being imported is burdens on the welfare system rather than cheap labor.

A “guaranteed income” is a dole. That solves nothing, but exacerbates welfare problems. Other countries already do this, even if they do not admit it.


71 posted on 07/23/2016 3:11:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If you’re on the dole, you’re strongly discouraged from working — because most earned-income is clawed back, by reducing the dole. With a guaranteed annual income (or whatever name), every adult (i.e. no means testing) receives the same amount from the government. If you work, you take more home — less normal taxes.

End welfare as you know it. End minimum-wage laws. Simplify everything. Encourage working — don’t punish it. That’s what changing to a guaranteed annual income for everyone could do.

It’s not meant to be perfection — it would just be a lot better than the existing mess.


72 posted on 07/23/2016 3:28:46 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: SkyDancer

Most of the protesters were from “rent a mob” and were paid $8.00 an hour to be there.


73 posted on 07/23/2016 3:32:42 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Olog-hai

“Where did the offer come from?

Can’t see any business succeeding there no matter what. Candidate for “affordable housing”?”

Condos, I was told.


74 posted on 07/23/2016 8:02:57 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: OrioleFan

Well, the new businesses will probably come along - just with automation.


75 posted on 07/24/2016 5:55:54 AM PDT by rb22982
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