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Manhattan culinary staple China Fun shutters, blaming government over-regulation(!)
nydailynews.com ^ | 1/8/2017 | Larry McShane

Posted on 01/08/2017 7:11:07 AM PST by rktman

For 25 years, China Fun was renowned for its peerless soup dumplings and piquant General Tso’s chicken.

What left a bad taste in the mouths of its owners and loyal patrons was the restaurant’s sudden Jan. 3 closing, blamed by management on suffocating government demands.

“The climate for small businesses like ours in New York have become such that it’s difficult to justify taking risks and running — nevermind starting — a legitimate mom-and-pop business,” read a letter posted by the owners in the restaurant’s front door.

“The state and municipal governments, with their punishing rules and regulations, seems to believe that we should be their cash machine to pay for all that ails us in society.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; food; manhattan; newyork; nyc; overregd; regulations; restaurants
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To: rktman
And he blamed the amount of paperwork now required — an increasingly difficult task for a non-chain businesses. “In a one-restaurant operation like ours, you’re spending more time on paperwork than you are trying to run your business,” he griped.

The net effect of government regulation is to make it uneconomical to run a small business, giving a big advantage to large corporations. From the viewpoint of Corporate America, this is a feature, not a bug.

Trump needs to drastically cut the Regulatory State, to make small business viable again.

21 posted on 01/08/2017 8:45:26 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Zuse

Meow? LOL!


22 posted on 01/08/2017 8:47:58 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: moovova
Only 12 more days of the angry, poo-flinging Muslim monkey in the White House.


23 posted on 01/08/2017 9:03:59 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: rktman

Albert Wu Shrugged


24 posted on 01/08/2017 9:28:32 AM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT! (ON HOLD starting 1/19/17))
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To: ex91B10

Now that was witty.


25 posted on 01/08/2017 11:46:08 AM PST by The Westerner
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To: Liz
This is partly why I am for term limits.

They need to LIVE under the stupid laws they make.

As it is now they usually don't and never have.

26 posted on 01/08/2017 11:54:55 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: rktman

Gavin McGuinness, ex NYC restraunteur, spills his FREAKIN GUTS about how almost all NYC restaurant bureaucrats are from Senegal and if your restaurant has a SINGLE DENTED CAN, they fine you $800:

https://youtu.be/CMjXgy2GmRM?t=8

They were growwing a million bucks yearly but it got so crazy he up and QUIT.


27 posted on 01/08/2017 2:25:13 PM PST by gaijin
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To: wideyed

Serve for a term and then go back out to society to live with the results of what you did on the hill.


AMEN!!!


28 posted on 01/08/2017 8:23:09 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: wideyed

I forgot to mention, I think there should be TERM LIMITS FOR CERTAIN STAFFERS AS WELL!!!


29 posted on 01/08/2017 8:24:28 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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