When we said we’d have a hardship clause in the smoking ban for businesses who’ve lost 5 percent of their revenue, we really meant we’d wait and see exactly how bad it’s going to be for businesses and then raise the threshold just above that
Currently, there is a proposed exemption for businesses that show a 5 percent drop in sales due to the ban. The threshold could be raised to as much as 15 percent, Fenty says. “That’s been the number that’s been thrown out the most often, but we haven’t finished deciding that,” Fenty says
From To the People:
But I thought the ban was supposed to be good for business. Could it be that ban proponents who claimed that all along were… lying?
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