Posted on 02/04/2014 11:06:52 AM PST by grundle
Shutting down lemonade stands costs kids important entrepreneurial experience
Over the last 30 years, it seems like it has gotten a little tougher for kids to start that most Norman Rockwell of ventures, the lemonade stand.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s there were a few instances of local governments shutting kids' stands down for various reasons, although officials typically bowed to public pressure and allowed them to reopen.
In 1983, 6-year-old Ali Thorn's lemonade stand in Belleair, Fla., was closed down after police received an anonymous complaint that her sign did not comply with city ordinances, but was quickly allowed to reopen.
In 1988, 9-year-old Max Schilling's seven-foot high lemonade stand in Watchung, N.J., was shuttered after city officials claimed it was a permanent structure that sat too close to the street and threatened to fine him $500 a day. After a brief legal fight, Schilling's stand was allowed to reopen.
In 1993, 12-year-old Sarah Knott and 13-year-old Margaret Johnson's stand in Charleston, S.C., was shut down by police officers because they didn't have a peddler's license. However, after a public outcry, the city apologized to the girls and allowed them to continue.
More recently, though, local enforcement of lemonade stands seems to have grown stricter, or at least, more noticeable. The libertarian Freedom Center of Missouri has produced a map to show the locations of these incidents.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Control.
Absolute, total and complete control of every single thought, deed and action of every single peasant, from the time they are permitted to be born by a ‘birth-control committee’ until the time the are required to die by a ‘death panel’.
The king wants his taxes. No matter minor the income He wants the cash.
The only one on the list that made even the slightest bit of sense was the one selling tea that they had brought from Fukushima after the tsunami. I could see some potential danger there. Otherwise, bah!
Indoctrination that the little people are not to act without the consent of the ruling government elites?
“We have a weapon more powerful... than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire! That weapon... is our refusal!”
—Michael Collins
Time to ramp it up. What would Michael Collins do?
Control. And the perception of control.
That and re-education without the re-education camps...
“Lemonade stand-shutdowns are not reaching epidemic-like levels, and no one is going to cart off little Suzie to jail for selling cookies outside her house.”
Not yet.
I know when I was fairly young I would push a power mower and a can of gas around the neighborhood looking for work. Is that still allowed?
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