Good column by SF Sentinel's Pat Murphy on restaurant owners resisting health care tax

BY PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright © 2007 San Francisco Sentinel

San Francisco small restaurant owners are scorned on all fronts for their federal lawsuit insisting they have the right to determine employee benefits, not the City now implementing universal health care with forced payment by restaurant owners necessary…

Our young San Francisco mayor — The Gav brooks 40 October 10 — publicly scalds restaurant owners every chance he gets for launching the lawsuit… Newsom notes threateningly he is not happy about the lawsuit…

Mandated restaurant owner payment is essential to establishing universal health care… Says The Gav…

Really, Gav honey, you should be more worried about them not being happy with you… Your performance is arrogant…

Newsom, partnered with Supervisor Tom Ammiano, imposed the employer mandate provision with very little imput from restaurant owners… It was only when owners noted they had the power to resist that they were seriously ushered to a seat…

With Ammiano, quick to go brittle, snorting he had heard owner hardship complaints for ever so long…

Further, that Ammiano did not believe hardship complaints and anyway their money is needed to benefit all San Franciscans, suck it up…

Suck this up: People don’t go into business to create jobs… Or deliver benefits…

People go into business to make money, say it out loud…

To use that money to cement their unqiue dream into expanding reality… Secondarily growing that reality with new jobs, more jobs, and newly employed San Franciscans receiving new benefits…

It is odious that in a town which works so hard to maintain neighborhood character, in a town where neighborhood character is greatly defined by world famed unique eateries, the venal attempting to tap altruist sentiment would treat our unique eateries with such pompous dismissal…

Owner after owner testified that the imposed mandate would close their doors and foreclose opening of new small restaurants…

That trend is already underway… Preponderence of new restaurant openings in San Francisco are low-cost formula food fops…

Be glad we have that judicial third branch of government, and go out and encourage owners who work 14 to 16 hours every day to keep their dream alive and your neighborhood unique…

I think San Francisco business owners are fighting a
losing fight and should just being closing down their
businesses and moving to more business-friendly areas,
like the Peninsula. One reason I live here is because
the socialist virus hasn't quite infected the Silicon
Valley to the degree that it has infected San
Francisco's government.

Let the city have its "universal health care" and
restaurant selection consisting entirely of Carl's
Jr., Jack-in-the-Box, and TGI Fridays (who can all
afford to pay the absurd taxes). Folks in Palo Alto,
Mountain View, and nearby communities will continue to
enjoy boutique restaurants with tasty entr�es at good
prices, and eventually city residents will be coming
down here for their fine dining, as well as their
technology and transportation needs.

There's no secret why San Francisco is now the Bay
Area's second city to San Jose -- and why San Jose
will eventually be more important, economically and
politically, than San Francisco. Just keep it up,
Gavin!

Cheers,

Brian

--- Starchild <sfdreamer@...> wrote:

BY PAT MURPHY
Sentinel Editor & Publisher
Copyright � 2007 San Francisco Sentinel

San Francisco small restaurant owners are scorned on
all fronts for
their federal lawsuit insisting they have the right
to determine
employee benefits, not the City now implementing
universal health
care with forced payment by restaurant owners
necessary�

Our young San Francisco mayor � The Gav brooks 40
October 10 �
publicly scalds restaurant owners every chance he
gets for launching
the lawsuit� Newsom notes threateningly he is not
happy about the
lawsuit�

Mandated restaurant owner payment is essential to
establishing
universal health care� Says The Gav�

Really, Gav honey, you should be more worried about
them not being
happy with you� Your performance is arrogant�

Newsom, partnered with Supervisor Tom Ammiano,
imposed the employer
mandate provision with very little imput from
restaurant owners� It
was only when owners noted they had the power to
resist that they
were seriously ushered to a seat�

With Ammiano, quick to go brittle, snorting he had
heard owner
hardship complaints for ever so long�

Further, that Ammiano did not believe hardship
complaints and anyway
their money is needed to benefit all San
Franciscans, suck it up�

Suck this up: People don�t go into business to
create jobs� Or
deliver benefits�

People go into business to make money, say it out
loud�

To use that money to cement their unqiue dream into
expanding
reality� Secondarily growing that reality with new
jobs, more jobs,
and newly employed San Franciscans receiving new
benefits�

It is odious that in a town which works so hard to
maintain
neighborhood character, in a town where neighborhood
character is
greatly defined by world famed unique eateries, the
venal attempting
to tap altruist sentiment would treat our unique
eateries with such
pompous dismissal�

Owner after owner testified that the imposed mandate
would close
their doors and foreclose opening of new small
restaurants�

That trend is already underway� Preponderence of new
restaurant
openings in San Francisco are low-cost formula food
fops�

Be glad we have that judicial third branch of
government, and go out
and encourage owners who work 14 to 16 hours every
day to keep their
dream alive and your neighborhood unique�

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