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August 29, 2005

Bulldozing Small Businesses

NY Sun
by Nicole Gelinas

This is an adaption of the City Journal article by Gelinas published on the web last week.

Can democratic candidates claim to support small businesses while supporting Ratner's plan which will displace several established successful small businesses?

These [small business] owners pay their property taxes and income taxes, and they employ dozens of New Yorkers at good wages and in good working conditions. “For someone to come and tell us that we have to” sell out to Mr. Ratner, “that is wrong,” said Simon Liu, who moved here from China more than 30 years ago, and who employs two dozen immigrant workers at his artsupply factory.

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Posted by lumi at August 29, 2005 9:09 AM