Which of you Liberals will support these people? Koo, DD, Jim W, anyone?

Question

Due to several Liberal laws passed in my city, I have to lay off 35 of my beloved employees, these are people who have become part of my family.
I own a neighborhood bar and restaurant,The democrats have passed a smoking ban, cutting 25% of my bussiness. They passed a decrease in the DUI B.A.L. by 20% AND increased min wage, for my servers who make 30-45 an hour (there is no tip credit in MN). In effect they, through legislation, have told me I can not sell to 25% of my guests, sell 25% less to the gusts I still have and then I need to pay my staff 22%more. I have not taken a salary for a year now but can no longer afford to keep taking all these loses. In order to save the jobs of 64 others I must terminate 35.
So which one of you will stand up to the plate to employ these people or pay thier bills?

Or are you afraid to take responsibility for the laws you support?

And THIS is why I am moderate.

Jim W
Cool you don't support those laws. Point being one can not ridicule one's party based on only a few issues..taken thank you

To all, I spent $360k to purchase a huge HAVAC system when I built the restaurant. It exchanged 4 times the required air than code and was designed to allow cigar smoking.( though I never did). I took steps to protect my staff. The CDC had a dinner in my place ONLY after their advance team did an air anyalisis showing no toxins in the restaurant ( I only allowed smoking in the bar area which was split off by a 3500 gallon marine aquarium).
To the turd who said they can go on unemployment...nice, that will make them feel valuable to get 70% of their income.

Answer 1

I don't, and never will, support such a law. It should be up to the business owner, not the government. Far too many "liberals" no longer understand the meaning of that word.

Answer 2

I feel for you. This is a clear case where government regulation almost always means anti-business. I'm from CA, so we probably already have as strict or stricter laws regarding smoking, DUI, and min wage.

I don't have a good solution, but years back when CA banned smoking, some restaurants that used to have a large smoking clientele tried a "smoke club" where you charge a menial fee (like $1) to "join" the club thereby making a section of your restaurant "private" and not subject to the smoking ban. The fee is good for one day only, so you don't have to track membership or anything. The idea has gone away in CA so maybe they closed the loophole, but you could have your attorney look into it for you and see if it might work. As far as the DUI laws, how about a promotion where any group with a des. driver gets free non-alcoholic drinks for the DD. Have your bartender put a wristband on the person saying "No booze, I have to cruise" or some catchy phrase. The increased sales from the drinkers should offset the cost of sponsoring the driver (fountain soda is dirt cheap, isn't it?)

Answer 3

It's an unfortunate situation and I can empathize, You're getting into local laws, I don't support any of the legislation you mentioned. For the 35 you had to terminate, perhaps a call to a local career counseling and/or employment agency to facilitate them working again asap would be in order. Life is tough sometimes, as a local business owner you should consider running for local office to put forth changes that are logical and benefit both worker and employer, something to think about.

Answer 4

Hey second hand smoke is a major contributor to Cancer,Minimum wage should have gone up about ten years ago by about $3.oo.So now you complain that its Libs doing this to you.What the hell are you doing employing 99 people to run a Bar and restaurant?No wonder you don't get a salary.

Answer 5

I don't smoke, but this topic really bugs me. A bunch of whining anti-smoking zealots have created the illusion that side stream smoke is a serious killer. Total BS. http://www.davehitt.com/facts/epa.html

Yes smoking is an unhealthy habit, and the side-stream smoke can be bothersome to some, and probably intollerable to others, but if the smoke bothers enough people in a restaraunt, then a voluntarily non-smoking restaraunt should be very successful next door.

Answer 6

Almost everybody gets laid off. I have been, my wife has been on several occassions. Sometimes, it turns out to be a good thing in the end. Hopefully your employees will find better paying jobs. BTW, since when was DUI a liberal issue?

Also, if your restaurant is smoke filled, you would never get my business, since I won't take my kids in there. You just may get some new customers now.

Answer 7

At last your beloved employees won't be killed on the way home by a drunk driver. Nor will they get lung cancer from working their butts of for you. Plus, as a benefit to the poor employees you care so much about, they will be able to feed their children, and put clothing on their backs. Wow, so what is wrong with liberals now?

Answer 8

This "Liberal" is a smoker, so I'm pretty sure I do not support a smoking ban. But, hey, if you feel secure in labeling others because of what's wrong in your life, keep it coming. Unless I live in your city, I had nothing to do with those "Liberal laws" being passed.

Answer 9

I don't live in your city, so I didn't vote for any of the people you are talking about. And as far as the smoking bans are comcerned, it has been shown to increase traffic in restaurants, not decrease it (except in Ireland, and other European countries where many more people smoke)

Answer 10

i do not particularly see any more effective probability of 'bathing room attacks'. Like that occurs at any variety of frequency? appears like a made up problem. What they could do is have 3 bogs: female, male and impartial (all of us). I help secure practices for trans human beings because they get attacked and singled out more effective than even gay human beings.