Largest street vendor protest in decades calls for more permits, less enforcement
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"We have a 9-to-5 just the way [everyone does]," he told the AmNews. "We go to the store and we pay taxes on whatever we buy-most of us pay taxes. We pay rent. We buy clothes, we buy food for our kids, clothes for our kids. We want what you want."
Three decades later, enforcement and confiscation continues to be a challenge for vendors, according to Baker. He noted the Department of Sanitation's issuance of $1,000 fines, both civil and criminal, for selling without a license or permit can wipe out weeks' worth of earnings.
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