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jmowreader

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8. Your last question is very good

Reply to lunasun (Reply #7)

Wed Feb 27, 2013, 10:27 PM

Feb 2013

How in hell DO they survive?

Taxes are higher. Wages are higher in a lot of places. Worker protections are greater in many places. Go somewhere like Germany or Sweden and you will find unbelievable restrictions on business...but business thrives there.

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The latest restaurant CEO to bellyache about Obamacare: Subway [View all] KamaAina Feb 2013 OP

Well, then, the stupid f's should have actively supported SINGLE PAYER. patrice Feb 2013 #1

Bingo! Cleita Feb 2013 #4

+10000 nt riderinthestorm Feb 2013 #11

Those stupid F's all being in the same big club is exactly WHY they'll never support it. HughBeaumont Feb 2013 #20

submarina is better anyway frylock Feb 2013 #2

So are lots of other places, I'm sure. KamaAina Feb 2013 #10

i try and frequent the mom n pop establishments as much as possible.. frylock Feb 2013 #13

Restaurants work on thin margins madville Feb 2013 #3

The next question... jmowreader Feb 2013 #5

I think the Walmart ones are franchise with concessionaire agreement-Loves maybe same lunasun Feb 2013 #7

Your last question is very good jmowreader Feb 2013 #8

But according to these greedy freaks it is damn near impossible lunasun Feb 2013 #9

How to save the money ... zbdent Feb 2013 #6

Look at it as a great investment Cha Feb 2013 #12

The payroll tax holiday did not effect businesses. Jeff In Milwaukee Feb 2013 #14

He thinks people are buying fewer sandwiches because their take-home pay is less. KamaAina Feb 2013 #15

Yep. Jeff In Milwaukee Feb 2013 #16

We just received our first training on ACA Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #17

I think I will start boycotting Subway... AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 #18

That's easy to do since their sandwiches are awful anyway Populist_Prole Feb 2013 #22

Another Idiot who can't keep his mouth shut...nt Stuart G Feb 2013 #19

Why is it that it's always the CEOs who hawk the shittiest food the loudest complaniners of ACA? Populist_Prole Feb 2013 #21