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.
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Everything is illegal except those things that the government specifically allows
“It reinforces in the minds of citizens the power of the omnipresent state
Everything is illegal except those things that the government specifically allows”
Exactly!
Our communist police state governments can't have young people getting poisoned with the ideas that capitalism and self sufficiency are good things.
Our chains are complete. All that’s needed is for us to sleep just a little longer .
You don't think they're buying all those laws for their health, do you?
See that pile of manure, Comrade? We are going to shove your nose into it. Because we can. And you will like it.
In a police state everything must be regulated and it’s the peoples fault for allowing their own government to do this.
No one should get any without giving to the State.
Control. And the perception of control.
initiative WILL be punished
Didn’t Musselini say something like everything within the state, nothing outside?
“Everything is illegal except those things that the government specifically allows.”
America, we hardly knew ye.
It makes politians feel like bullies.
you know why.
YOU DIDN’T MAKE THAT LEMONADE!
The ultimate goal: Everything not required by the state is forbidden.
Its obvious. Lemonade is a gateway drug.
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