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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downtown is dead but go into ay DC neighborhood like Shaw, Petworth, Columbia Heights and you'll see restaurants and bars thriving. But they still need help. That's what this grant is trying to do. Not help the big investors but the small business owner who employs her neighbors. $50k is a drop int he bucket to the corporate handouts that are given but everyone is up in arms. And that $50k investment gets spent in the community, employing people, buying from other local businesses, paying taxes

What an incredible waste of tax dollars. People don't go out to eat because it's expensive as fkuc and there's nowhere to park.

You don't live in the city or you wouldn't be worrying about parking. So it's not your tax dollars and not your concern. As an actual DC resident, restaurants are our neighbors and our arteries and I don't consider helping our our neighbors to be a waste of money.

[Anonymous]

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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.

The joke falls flat if it's the other side doing it. Unless you were being sarcastic, like ironically using "thanks Obama" to mock the other side for overusing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now we have welfare for restaurants?

We have welfare for GOP, so why not? Elon Musk is the biggest welfare queen there is.

[Anonymous]

It's unverifiable, of course, but you'll never convince me that the majority of naysayers on this thread are actual DC residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downtown is dead but go into ay DC neighborhood like Shaw, Petworth, Columbia Heights and you'll see restaurants and bars thriving. But they still need help. That's what this grant is trying to do. Not help the big investors but the small business owner who employs her neighbors. $50k is a drop int he bucket to the corporate handouts that are given but everyone is up in arms. And that $50k investment gets spent in the community, employing people, buying from other local businesses, paying taxes

What an incredible waste of tax dollars. People don't go out to eat because it's expensive as fkuc and there's nowhere to park.

You don't live in the city or you wouldn't be worrying about parking. So it's not your tax dollars and not your concern. As an actual DC resident, restaurants are our neighbors and our arteries and I don't consider helping our our neighbors to be a waste of money.

This has to be the absolute dumbest comment yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't about I-82.

It is about the decimation, between COVID and trump layoffs, of downtown DC.

I thought feds RTO was going to save DC restaurants.

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Downtown is dead but go into ay DC neighborhood like Shaw, Petworth, Columbia Heights and you'll see restaurants and bars thriving. But they still need help. That's what this grant is trying to do. Not help the big investors but the small business owner who employs her neighbors. $50k is a drop int he bucket to the corporate handouts that are given but everyone is up in arms. And that $50k investment gets spent in the community, employing people, buying from other local businesses, paying taxes

What an incredible waste of tax dollars. People don't go out to eat because it's expensive as fkuc and there's nowhere to park.

You don't live in the city or you wouldn't be worrying about parking. So it's not your tax dollars and not your concern. As an actual DC resident, restaurants are our neighbors and our arteries and I don't consider helping our our neighbors to be a waste of money.

If the government has to pay businesses to remain operational, you have a giant problem. And I've lived in DC since the early 1990s.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No kidding. The DC government starves charter schools of cash, even though half the kids in this city attend them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is the road go hell always paved with progressive ideas?

The problem is our current orange dictator has destroyed the local economy thanks to DOGE (all while pillaging citizens’ data, appointing drunkards and tv stars to leadership positions, and making himself and his billionaire buddies even wealthier).

And to the extent any jobs have been “gained” in this region, they’re mostly lower paying jobs that do not actually make up for the lost white collar jobs because no one in either party seems to want to reign in private equity, limit H1Bs, or regulate AI in order to salvage decent-paying knowledge jobs. Then add in a stupid war, inflation, spiking gas prices (which makes the cost of transporting food more expensive), and lack of leisure time due to strict RTO and people working multiple gig jobs, and many people just do not have the time nor money to go out to an expensive restaurant on any frequent basis.

Also the cost of everything like college, housing, etc. is through the roof. I’d rather add to my kids’ 529s than pay for a sitter to go eat a $200 dinner somewhere nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is the road go hell always paved with progressive ideas?

The problem is our current orange dictator has destroyed the local economy thanks to DOGE (all while pillaging citizens’ data, appointing drunkards and tv stars to leadership positions, and making himself and his billionaire buddies even wealthier).

And to the extent any jobs have been “gained” in this region, they’re mostly lower paying jobs that do not actually make up for the lost white collar jobs because no one in either party seems to want to reign in private equity, limit H1Bs, or regulate AI in order to salvage decent-paying knowledge jobs. Then add in a stupid war, inflation, spiking gas prices (which makes the cost of transporting food more expensive), and lack of leisure time due to strict RTO and people working multiple gig jobs, and many people just do not have the time nor money to go out to an expensive restaurant on any frequent basis.

Also the cost of everything like college, housing, etc. is through the roof. I’d rather add to my kids’ 529s than pay for a sitter to go eat a $200 dinner somewhere nice.

DC has the highest unemployment rate in the country and our government and the mayoral candidates have no plan to try to fix it, except blame Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They're panicking because they now realize their dumb progressive ideas are going to make commercial real estate crash and burn. Once commercial RE goes, so will residential values. Values crash then so do base assessments for taxation.

Pure geniuses. Tax, over regulate and big govt your way into an economic cesspit.

Wut

[Anonymous]

So you, DC taxpayers, are paying for this one way or another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is the road go hell always paved with progressive ideas?

Bail outs are always Republican ideas. Please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So now we have welfare for restaurants?

We have welfare for GOP, so why not? Elon Musk is the biggest welfare queen there is.

And airlines (hello, Spirit!), agriculture, and oil/gas, Intel, MP Materials, Lithium Americas, and U.S. Steel.

[Anonymous]

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

If the 50K doesn't save you, they can't exactly force you to stay open; but there should be a pay back if you close within a year.