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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

Who's narrative is that? Not mine.

This narrative, which I didn't mean to imply was yours - I should have been more clear:

Originally Posted by pylon

Thanks NDP!

Originally Posted by stampsx2

The trickle down effect is making it's way down.

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

So the 16 year old dishwasher is now making 15 bucks an hour - forced by the government

All from the first page - this is already in some people's minds as confirmation that the NDP and City Hall are grinding down the little guy. Six months from now it'll be a fondly remembered talking point, "Hey, remember that guy Notley forced out on the street 'cause she only likes hippy granola vegan organically sourced street food? **** you NDP!" And a decade from now, it'll be the "Harvest of the Restauranteurs", with salad dressing running in the gutters, and "proof" of how Nenshi ruined the city.

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I just said any situation where your taxes go up 100%-300% is probably a government policy that is bad for business and should be changed. Especially when the city has admitted they erred. I'm not exactly sure how anyone benefits from that.

The intent of changing the system wasn't to lay punitive taxes on certain businesses, it was a side effect of trying to make the system better in general - more efficient and fair. You could equally argue Escoba had the benefit of years of being undertaxed comparative to the actual worth of the property.

Sometimes change is going to be bad for some but better overall, It certainly sucks if you're on the bad side of change, and I actually do feel for this guy a bit, I just find the same old people who use the situation to complain with the same old BS anti-government crap, with no context and ridiculously overblown hyperbole vexing and sadly amusing.

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I'd love that explained. Oh and I also said it's idiotic to suggest restaurants fail all the time so every failed restaurant is nothing more than status quo.

I think the point is more that restaurants failing when the economy tanks is especially unexceptional, so conspiracy theories about bike lanes have a pretty strong burden of proof to be convincing. That's all.

Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!

I'm more than willing to wait for minimum wage to increase business profitability and for bike lanes to create more customer based business though for sure. Don't pin the anti-socialism badge on me just yet.

Again, I didn't mean to lump you in with the CP Tea Party mouth-foamers, although I'm sure even now I'm being lumped in with Comrade Rube in their minds.