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Grand Deli Mike won't slam greedy landlords
Which 90% of government would you, in your infinite wisdom, recommend cutting? Is your hatred of government only limited to the zoning and permit agencies, who will prevent someone from opening a dangerous factory right next to where people go out to eat, and will keep unlicensed roach coaches and sidewalk vendors from selling food out in front of the restaurant (heck, they’re businesses, too)? Or does it include the police department, who will show up at the restaurant when there is an emergency? The firefighters and EMT who will show up when there’s a kitchen fire? The water department who makes sure clean water comes out of the restaurant’s faucets, or the sanitation department that will deal with the water after it’s flushed down the drain? Perhaps you’d cut the transportation department that built the highways and roads the restaurant’s customers use to drive there, and its distributors’ trucks use to deliver food? No, maybe you’d cut the health department that makes sure the restaurant –and its competitors—isn’t serving dangerous food? Or would you cut the budget of public schools, which educate people so that they can have jobs that enable them to afford to eat out at nice restaurants? Perhaps you’d rather cut the court system, that will be there if the owner needs to sue a vendor for breach of contract? Or the financial regulators who ensure the owner’s bank isn’t ripping him off? Or the military and public university labs that invented the internet that you read this article on?— August 21, 2015 2:05 p.m.