So they also think that there will be no consequences for them. Maybe they need a better education.

I don't know. I think they believe somebody ELSE is going to pay the tax.

Most people don't know they are voting for huge tax increases. They think they are voting for, as the political ad says, “better education in our schools.”

You are correct. I over-simplified when I shouldn't have left out the obvious media manipulation. Excellent catch.

Hello teri-amborn,
I heard a follow up report and the restaurateur has claimed that he has received increased business and mostly support. Of course the MSM and internet media food fight is another story... :)
I believe in truth in advertising and billing. It is too easy for people to blame the evil capitalist for increased prices and that is the way politicians want it.
Regards,
O.A.

They're the same ones who want [desperately] for Dear Leader not to be naked.
aiiiee! my eyes, my eyes!!!

I'm surprised, or maybe I shouldn't be, at the indignation from the people who want the restraint to help them pretend that there is such a free lunch and that A is not A.

How wonderful would it be if other establishments all across America put a minimum wage fee on the tickets. Better yet all across America. Even better reduce the prices of the food down to what they would be at $6 an hour and put the rest on the minimum wage fee on the receipt nationally. Then maybe I would not hear from some people that "It doesn't effect me" any more.

Well said winter. Point for you. You are so right. When people don't speak up it will continue to happen again and again.

It's past time to stand for something. I like Who Is Your Hero. Very good.

wiggys-You are correct - the cost of the product went up. Where you begin to lose the point, though, is in looking for "the easiest way to deal with it". Looking for the easiest way to go along with things that are wrong IS wrong - silence implies consent! and the same for every company that went along, trying not to make a fuss. Just because one might be the only voice protesting a destructive injustice does not make it wrong to protest.
If the restaurant owner had held a press conference and publicized his action, I might have said tsk, tsk, tacky. But he didn't do the publicizing - he's just trying to run his business the best way he knows how, and passing on a mandated cost in a way that the diners knew why their meals cost more was informative.

You certainly don't have to answer this question here and now, but at what point, when someone has the power to destroy your livelihood [and put a number of people out of work] would YOU speak up against it? Where is your tipping point?
We are, in today's America, choosing up sides: looters, collaborators, destroyers, creators,vultures, rabble-rousers, those who feels that's something's wrong, rebels. Hey, guys, speak up if I missed somebody. Which side will you choose, and will you be able to face yourself in the mirror every day after you choose it?
That's really the same question as Who is your Hero? and why?

a minor point: Sorry, I don't understand the exchange with your secretary. Her response was the same as yours because the story had made the national news? I'm missing something there.

Who IS your hero?

"they are mad because they are stupid."
That's how this thread started. I said I'm glad they're getting free publicity, even though it's for something dumb.

Here's a politically incorrect answer - they are mad because they are stupid. Million and millions of morons think, - no, that's a wrong word - believe, that government just gives them something for nothing, never realizing that the government only steals from some to give to others and the former compensate by raising prices. Bottom line - stupid.

"You own a small business? You didn't build that! "
It's too bad President Obama doesn't have a sex scandal so his critics wouldn't have to dig up comments taken out of context from *years* ago.

"Actually, this is not really a private business' fee. It is a government tax."
I understand people reacting to the gov't tax. I don't understand why they're mad at this one business owner for itemizing it out.

Point for you winter. The 'hidden' costs need to be brought into the day light. People need to see why things cost what they do.

winterwind,
no matter how you do it the cost of product in the establishment is up. therefore the easiest way to deal with it is to increase the cost of the product. when I told my secretary of this situation her immediate response since it has made the national news, not on galt's gultch was the same as mine. I am sure the greater majority of companies who have to deal with this situation did just that raise their prices without fan fare.

oh, please, wiggys.
He did EXACTLY as he should have done. The people who vote for such "invisible" increases in costs should see in right in front of them on a plate.
We are here because there has been too much silence, too much going along, too much "it's only a small amount". It all counts, it's all wrong, and if we go along with it quietly we will deserve what we get.

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." - John Galt

How about user fees instead?

They know what they were told, which usually has little to do with the truth, as those proposing the tax have a vested financial interest in the tax, transfering from producers to looters,

Government bonds, myself.
Lost nothing in the crash.
The only thing I have to worry about is...well...funny...you guys.

Well... Being able to be consistently honest WILL set you free.
In this particular case it may set the business owner free from his income stream...

I have to admire his honesty, however.

What would happen if a restaurant provided real cost breakdowns of each menu item? A real analysis of the costs of food, facilities, labor, and of course the taxes that contribute to each of those components!

People would flip when they realized that no less than 25% of everything they consume is paid as taxes to Uncle Sam, and then the states tack on Sales Taxes on top of those built-in Federal taxes.

Support the Fair Tax!

I heard that mentioned on the radio today. It would be a good idea to require all taxes, state and federal, to be posted at the pump. Extend that thought to cigarettes as well.

Next stop, gasoline retailers to explicitly show the taxes/gallon.