[tomasien]

There is an audience for "minimum wage kills jobs" articles and you can't write an article without a source. It's sad but true that the majority of the service industry is in perpetual failure mode, therefore, you can always find multiple business owners (they're "experts" right?) who will blame their failure on whatever the latest bogey man is.

Again - I genuinely believe hyper-local minimum wage hikes are especially stressful to the service industry. But articles like this make me almost more skeptical of that belief, because if this is the best they can do to make the case.....

[duxup]

Yeah one of the more prominent local "too many taxes" guys who loved to put up makeshift billboards around his restaurant about taxes was recently arrested. He was a fixture on local news always ready to give a quote.

Turns out he wasn't paying his taxes, or employees at times... ;)

Granted plenty of local business guys who certainly can have those opinions and they pay their taxes.