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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a guy selling water in the median by the intersection of Georgia Ave and Military rd who drives me nuts. It’s so unsafe and also he has all these signs, little slogans, the water all the time. He’s more than demonstrating that he’s capable of managing a job and he’s fairly creative and entrepreneurial. So why should he get to run an unsafe, unlicensed, dangerous and annoying business in the middle of the road? [/quote]

He makes more money selling water, makes his own schedule, doesn’t pay taxes, and probably gets a fair number of government benefits on top of his tax free income selling water. Pretty good gig. [/quote]

Pretty good gig? How many bottles of water could he possibly be selling a day? Let's say he's out there for 10 hours. Think he's selling more than 100? 200? At not more than $2/pop, minus whatever his cost for the water is, that's still less than minimum wage to stand around in the middle of the road all day. I'm sure he'd happily trade positions and salaries with you if you asked.[/quote]

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