[Cincinatus' Wife]

There appears to be no end in sight for the intrusion and dictates of government, only an acceleration.

They want their cut.

[freekitty]

The Junior League and others have been doing this for years.

[Gaffer]

They don’t like her business because it is likely mostly cash, and they can’t watch her (or the register) all day, nor can they watch the volunteers. They only want their frigging money.

[markomalley]

A couple of thoughts:

Are they going to be taking action against the DNC and all state Democrat parties for all the unpaid labor they use? (maybe some FReepers who have the time could do sufficient research and file a complaint)

This is, of course, an effort to raise the tax base, but, this kind of enforcement will go up because of Obamacare. The more employees, the more who will be required to be provided insurance (or the more whom will have fines taxes exacted

To somebody in her situation, I would think it would be appropriate to bankrupt her existing business and reorganize it as a new not-for-profit 501c3 organized for the purpose of doing charitable work. Pay herself a serious salary (as well as any other employees below 50). Cover her expenses (home office, cell phone, computer, etc) as business expenses to the corporation. And then donate the profits, if any, to her church.

[HiTech RedNeck]

They want to be masters of EVERYTHING.

Well that’s what we get when pride goes to bureaucrats’ heads. It’s bad enough having a crazy king. Having millions of them is worse.

[Pollster1]

I wonder if the volunteers offended FedGov by drinking too large a Big Gulp while helping to sell their own merchandise. We need to stand up for liberty.

[Conspiracy Guy]

They don’t even care about the money. Their goal is to oppress and controll.

[Conspiracy Guy]

They don’t even care about the money. Their goal is to oppress and control.

[Stormdog]

At the next event she runs she could call her volunteers “unpaid interns”.

[The Working Man]

It’s all about control of the citizens, I’m sure someone will eventually bring out the quote from Atlas Shrugged about making everyone a criminal through ceaseless laws and regulations.

I think that it does go much deeper though, this incident and so many others that have been reported lately are looking, to me at least, as designed to keep people pissed off. Why though? It could be misdirection so that we aren’t calmly and rationally examining something else.

Something to think about anyway.

[silverleaf]

No more barn-raisings in this country, folks!
folks helping each other at cooperatve yard sales .... job stealers!
Just about as dangerous as the Little Sisters!

[HChampagne]

The American Civil Liberties Union has ........O wait..maybe they didn’t.

[leapfrog0202]

Bump for later.

[bert]

AOL had a similar problem with volunteers that hosted various groups.

[Elsie]

Ladies and gentlemen, be careful who you volunteer for — you could be doing them a lot more harm than good. The federal government sometimes takes dim view of such generosity.

Just ask Rhea Lana Riner. She owns a small Arkansas-based business that organizes consignment sales. Since August, the Labor Department has been threatening her with stiff financial penalties, saying her business practices are illegal.

Everyone hates ROMNEY!!

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...home to one of the five retired Mormon couples that volunteer on the ranch.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/604151/posts

[tired&retired]

Riner is fighting back, and on Monday filed a legal complaint against the department with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The legal nonprofit group Cause of Action is representing her.

Are they going after the nonprofit group Cause of Action if their attorney is volunteering his services probono?

I have a case in Fed Tax Court right now where my client paid health insurance, reimbursed expenses, provide meals in the business, and provided housing on premises of the business (a restaurant) and the IRS is trying to deny the deduction for the insurance and expenses as he was “Not Paid as an Employee.” He worked there as an “unpaid employee.”

Note: He was not paid under the table. He lived on his retirement income and did not want the money, but wanted to keep busy.

[RWB Patriot]

I think about stories like this every time someone claims America is still based on free-market capitalism.

[NTHockey]

A three day shut down of ALL businesses nationwide would do wonders to put these enemies of the state back in their designated spaces - one step above McDonalds.

[reg45]

They are not volunteers, they are partners.

[JimRed]

Is it 1776 yet?