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It’s been called “the worst and most psychotic business structure, maybe, in America.” And that’s by the owner.
But let’s back up a second. Months ago, Dylan Alverson made headlines after he converted the Modern Times Cafe in Minneapolis into the Post Modern Times Cafe, a pay-what-you-can model which was meant to protest (somehow) the deaths of George Floyd, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, all left wing causes célèbres associated with Minnesota’s most populous city.
“For the remainder of the government occupation, we will function as a free and donation-based restaurant,” he wrote in a social media post, according to The New York Times. (He was referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement actually enforcing immigration law, which apparently is equivalent to Vichy France.)
The reasoning is that with a pay-what-you-wish model, he would avoid paying sales taxes because the “sales” would be counted as donations instead. This tax, he claimed, was “actively inflicting daily harm on its citizens.”
This tax goes to the state of Minnesota, which has no jurisdiction over the federal government and does not pay ICE, so it’s unclear he understood how taxation works.
Even The Guardian reported on it, noting that the........
