The kid's dad should have told her:
A solid (R) voter in 11 more years.
The kid's dad should have told her:
Regulatory Release: end seizing freedom and renting it back for a price! End the Shakedown of licenses and permits.
How did I know it was NYS...
If he was in SF, he could carry a straw conviction on his criminal record as well.
County fair will go bankrupt if they can’t sell $7.00 lemonades. No cash, tickets only.
“Where do you get tickets?”
“See that long line over there?”
$12.50 for a page of 10 tickets. No time to do the math when figuring out what stuff costs. Be sure to buy exactly enough tickets, full pages only. No refunds on unused tickets. That’s the ticket! Have a nice day!
He should have sold the cups instead of the lemonade but offered free lemonade.
Did he at least have a dog or cat they could shoot because they felt threatened?
I’ve heard about these kids and lemonade stands. They don’t have the health department permits. Thye also don’t have workman’s comp insurance, liability insurance, they don’t pay FICA and Medicare taxes, they don’t have a retirement plan for their employees, thye don’t have the various business licenses required to operate a business, they don’t file tax returns for the business.....
It’s a true crisis that these kids have a lemonade stand......
Sarcasm
The boy had not given the politicians enough money in campaign contributions, so he had to be eliminated.
Cute little guy. “Undercutting” the vendors probably wasn’t hard to do. I doubt seriously he had little if any effect on their sales. 99% of his buyers probably bought it just to help him. I’ve bought at lemonade stands before and usually throw it away. I like helping young people understand capitalism.
Nice. What type of adult complains about a kid selling lemonade?
“... 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.
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”.
“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.
Who are the REAL “bullies” in America. One is a female (gender assuming in effect) government employee wearing a T-shirt.
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.