DC gov giving $50,000 to restaurants "to remain operational"

[Anonymous]

What will happen is vacant commercial zones will sprout “restaurants”. These will be owned by a few enterprising individuals who will collect several million dollars in a collection of $50k payments. The “restaurants” will close and the money will be spent on a nice house and yacht in Miami. Taxpayers will lose again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What will happen is vacant commercial zones will sprout “restaurants”. These will be owned by a few enterprising individuals who will collect several million dollars in a collection of $50k payments. The “restaurants” will close and the money will be spent on a nice house and yacht in Miami. Taxpayers will lose again.

Tell me how this works when you need have been an operating restaurant already. The same address can only be used once. You have a business license, tax returns, financials. Grifters gonna grift, but there are far easier ways than applying to (and getting awarded!) a $50k grant 60 times = several millions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's important to know it's for more small businesses than just restaurants. Consignment sores, tailors, retail stores are also eligible. If you have a favorite local business, tell them to apply so they don't close down.

Don't tell anyone to apply. This is a stupid use of taxpayer dollars. It won't save any businesses. It will just waste the public's money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What will happen is vacant commercial zones will sprout “restaurants”. These will be owned by a few enterprising individuals who will collect several million dollars in a collection of $50k payments. The “restaurants” will close and the money will be spent on a nice house and yacht in Miami. Taxpayers will lose again.

Tell me how this works when you need have been an operating restaurant already. The same address can only be used once. You have a business license, tax returns, financials. Grifters gonna grift, but there are far easier ways than applying to (and getting awarded!) a $50k grant 60 times = several millions.

You underestimate the ability of enterprising individuals who, like the “Learing (sic) Center” grifters, can snap up free taxpayer money.

All paperwork is in order, and thank you for the generous donation to the Democratic party (wink-wink).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's important to know it's for more small businesses than just restaurants. Consignment sores, tailors, retail stores are also eligible. If you have a favorite local business, tell them to apply so they don't close down.

Don't tell anyone to apply. This is a stupid use of taxpayer dollars. It won't save any businesses. It will just waste the public's money.

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business that keeps that money circulating in my community than give millions and billions of dollars to billionaires

[Anonymous]

After you get the $50k, can you just close anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's important to know it's for more small businesses than just restaurants. Consignment sores, tailors, retail stores are also eligible. If you have a favorite local business, tell them to apply so they don't close down.

Don't tell anyone to apply. This is a stupid use of taxpayer dollars. It won't save any businesses. It will just waste the public's money.

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business that keeps that money circulating in my community than give millions and billions of dollars to billionaires

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business than get stabbed in the eye, but fortunately those are not the choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After you get the $50k, can you just close anyway?

It's DC. They probably won't even check to see if you actually have a restaurant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's important to know it's for more small businesses than just restaurants. Consignment sores, tailors, retail stores are also eligible. If you have a favorite local business, tell them to apply so they don't close down.

Don't tell anyone to apply. This is a stupid use of taxpayer dollars. It won't save any businesses. It will just waste the public's money.

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business that keeps that money circulating in my community than give millions and billions of dollars to billionaires

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business than get stabbed in the eye, but fortunately those are not the choices.

Checkout these massive corporate subsides https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-u-s-companies-receive-the-most-government-subsidies/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's important to know it's for more small businesses than just restaurants. Consignment sores, tailors, retail stores are also eligible. If you have a favorite local business, tell them to apply so they don't close down.

Don't tell anyone to apply. This is a stupid use of taxpayer dollars. It won't save any businesses. It will just waste the public's money.

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business that keeps that money circulating in my community than give millions and billions of dollars to billionaires

I'd rather "waste" my money on a local small business than get stabbed in the eye, but fortunately those are not the choices.

Checkout these massive corporate subsides https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-u-s-companies-receive-the-most-government-subsidies/

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Janeese says restaurants deserve $100,000

This is an initiative by Muriel Bowser that you're trying to pin on Janeese??

You McDuffie/Bowser stooges are not very smart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese says restaurants deserve $100,000

This is an initiative by Muriel Bowser that you're trying to pin on Janeese??

You McDuffie/Bowser stooges are not very smart.

I think the joke is that Janeese's answer to everything is to spend way more money on it than we do currently, regardless of how stupid it is.

[Anonymous]

How many of you actually live in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many of you actually live in DC?

Long enough to remember way back when, before I-82, when magazines wrote about DC's booming restaurant scene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is $50K enough to save a restaurant? Maybe for a few weeks, or less...

There are teachers at my kids school who dont make a lot more than $50,000

Your kid's school pays its teachers like shit then.