Remember the proprietor of a San Francisco bookstore
who closed his doors because of that city’s “living wage” law? Well, that poor man is under fire for
speaking truth to power. The Washington
Free Beacon reported the following:
San Francisco’s
Borderlands Books will be forced to close as the city increases its minimum
wage, and its owner Alan Beatts is tired of being criticized for talking about
it.
“Most critics
say ‘how dare you blame the minimum wage increase for you closing,’” he told
the Washington Free Beacon. “It’s bullshit.”
“They’re either
calling me a liar or chastising me for telling the truth.”
Borderlands is a
specialty bookstore that has been able to carve out a niche in San Francisco
for the past 18 years. It has been able to support a staff of five, most of
whom have been working together for more than a decade.
Beatts said he
made a mere $28,000 in gross salary last year.
With the added
labor costs the city’s new minimum wage will eventually impose on the business,
and the fact that books come pre-priced leaving no room for price increases,
Mr. Beatts sees no way it can survive.
“At this point
the business is doing fine but I look down the road and the business is losing
$25,000 a year,” he said. “It’s going to put me out of work.”
He is more
concerned about how the store’s closing will affect his employees though.
“We’re all friends,” he said. “In some ways this is harder on the employees
than me.”
Yet,
according to Democrats, this business owner is nothing more than a greedy, fat
cat oppressing his workers. Now he’ll sail
off to some comfy, vacation home in the islands without a care in the world
while his former employees eat dog food.
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