Posted on 07/31/2018 7:51:23 AM PDT by Kudsman
The state Health Department shut down an upstate lemonade stand run by a 7-year-old after vendors at a nearby county fair complained he was undercutting their price.
Brendan Mulvaney was selling lemonade, water and Sno-cones from the porch of his family’s home, which happens to be right outside the Saratoga County Fair, when a woman wearing a Health Department T-shirt turned up Friday and ordered it closed because the family had no permit.
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“... when a woman wearing a Health Department T-shirt turned up Friday and ordered it closed because the family had no permit.”
Gonna have to get a look at the female inspector...and how tight the t-shirt was...before I pronounce guilt.
Scumbag carnies, no doubt.
Can’t you somehow work in some racism as well? I just know there has to be some racism here!
Government regulation really exists to protect established businesses that pay kickbacks and NOT the public.
This young man has learned that valuable lesson.
Needing “permits” for everything is ONLY an incumbants protection racket that makes EVERY business an extension of state policy, this state controlled and thus a de facto state enterprise. Americans do not realize how much LIBERTY and free enterprise they have tossed away in the name of “government permits”.
Another question this brings up. I recall as a kid having neighborhood circuses to raise money for Jerry's kids. Are these outlawed now too?
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.”
My younger kids are making signs for a lemonade stand right now.
This weekend is going to be hot-hope enough golfers drive by to give them some business.
Buy tickets ,LOL.
I wonder about the fairs and carnivals where you have to buy tickets like that. And almost always went home with unused tickets. I’m sure that is part of the “business model” of the event.
And don't get me started on HOA's...
Best of luck to your little ones. Have fun.
Kid should have clapped on a Kufi cap and yelled “ALLAHU AKBAR!!!”
Inspector would have ran out leaving a streak of .....
“And don’t get me started on HOA’s... “
I agree. Any HOA is like a private taking of your propert using a “legal” means sanctioned by government. They should be made illegal as far as them having any “control” over your property.
The ONLY thing they should be allowed for is for the shared expenses of public spaces held in common (like a community swimming pool and recreation area) and/or common services performed for the whole community - like lawncare. But beyond those things they HOAs should not be legal. I agree.
Who are the REAL “bullies” in America. One is a female (gender assuming in effect) government employee wearing a T-shirt.
Nice loophole there. Well done.
A friend of mine sells smoked fish and BBQ and sides from his pickup truck on the side of the road- he has taken all the food service tests and is super clean about everything he does- but because of all the regulations here against food trucks- such as no food can be served from a non permanent structure- in order to use his food truck legally he’d have to attach it to a permanently set building, finding someone who would allow it on their property. There are other deranged rules that have nothing to do with food safety, too.
So he does what so many others do— he just opens for business on weekends when the code inspectors aren’t working and no one can stop him, and caters the rest of the time when he can. He’d like to open a brick and mortar place but it’s going to take him a lot longer to save up for a property since he can only operate out of the pickup truck on the weekends. He’s managed to save up and buy and bring to code a full fledged food truck so far with all the refrigeration and the like that it requires, but it’s no use to him unless he attaches it to someone’s building assuming he can find a cooperative landowner.
We had a similar incident here in Pittsburgh.
A Mexican family opened a small grocery store. They put a stand out front to sell street tacos. The delicious smell started drawing customers to the store, and before long there was a line of people outside every day.
A couple of weeks later the city shut them down. There were ordinances like the one you outlined that prohibit selling food from street carts. And of course the whistle had been blown by the owners of several brick-and-mortar restaurants on that street that did not like the new competition (and likely had been paying kickbacks for years to get that ordinance passed and enforced).
The taco stand owners turned the tables however by going to the media and screaming “RAAAAACIST!” That of course turned the Liberal Democrats who run Pittsburgh city government into quivering piles of jelly. They came back having suddenly “discovered” a few loopholes in the law, and the taco stand has been thriving since.
When I was a kid I did really well selling somewhat unusual type of tomatoes and peppers and such from a stand in our small suburban front yard. I turned the entire back yard and a vacant lot into a vegetable garden and mini orchard and planted it every spring and whenever one crop needed switched out during the summer. I had novelty peppers that looked like something Anthony Weiner would put on the internet... those sold out easily just because they were funny. Also grew the thin walled Cubanelles for frying, and lots of sweet banana peppers, and some hot peppers stores back then just didn’t carry.
Sold garlic and cucumbers too, and some flowers that had multiplied for me like peonies and irises, and some herbs.
So we didn’t have hardly any yard to mow and I was so busy picking, washing and weeding there wasn’t much time to get into trouble so my parents were real supportive.
My dad used to take the church youth group on an outing to have hay rides and pick apples cheap from the orchards a couple hours away after they had taken orders. They would bag them up according to orders and call the customers to come to the church to pick them up n Sunday- they did real well and no code enforcers to worry about.
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