Labor Department tells Arkansas businesswoman she can't have volunteers

Washington Examiner ^ | January 8, 2014 | SEAN HIGGINS

[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.

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©
PREFECT !©

[onyx]

BTW, I have “saved” that one!
Thank you so much!

[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.

[Pollster1]

It’s one of my favorites. Enjoy.

[dearolddad]

What about the Girl Scout cookie sails?

[onyx]

I’ll use it to ping her list one day!

[WVKayaker]

What about the Girl Scout cookie sails?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....to me at least, as designed to keep people pissed off.

I agree. Harmony isn't in the Alinsky playbook (community organizer manuel). Big government must be needed and called on for help and CONTROL.

[RedMDer]

Nice!

[RedMDer]

We ought to sue the DNC, state Democrat partys and OFA for all of the laws and regulations they single handedly force upon us causing pain and expense.

[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!