[kjo]

Let’s see if the Obama campaign can tie this to Romney?

[cripplecreek]

Hope there are some folks in West Michigan who can help this kid and his family out.

[LRoggy]

Anyone have a party affiliation?

http://www.wnj.com/kurt_dykstra/

[WKUHilltopper]

The idea is to crush individuals. They got the guns and the courts. So easy in a tyranny.

[varon]

While I admire and support the boy’s efforts, I personally can’t see anyone buying a hot dog in a parking lot from a 13 year old kid unless it was a “donation for a worthy cause” and the hot dog as lunch for Fido.

[ladyrustic]

Another example of our mafia-like, crony loving, gangster government hurting the poor.

Heavan forbid the poor should try to sell something by the roadside without showing the necessary obeisance to, and sharing the profits with, the arm-twisting thugs of our collectivist overseers...

[School of Rational Thought]

Government picking winners and losers.

If kid did not have access because his cart did not pay taxes to maintain area, then all the free-riders should not be allowed down there either.

[WKUHilltopper]

I bet the major ran off right afterwards and masturbated thinking about his big victory.

Keep tolerating criminals. Its all so loving and liberal.

[MeganC]

Sorry, but when a community has laws against people selling food without permits and health inspections I’m fine with it. Just the same as I was fine with the illegal alien in California getting arrested for selling tamales without permits or health inspections.

I admire the kid’s entrepreneurial spirit but he needs to focus on a legal enterprise.

[ansel12]

They get a sizable monthly check, have all the dumpy apartments and trailers disappeared in Michigan?

[sten]

“Socialists shutdown Nathan’s hot dogs”

[wildhog]

This is a local issue reported nationally without proper details or context of Holland's downtown environment. Unlike most towns, Holland's downtown is enviably and extremely bustling and vibrant. Downtown merchants pay apportioned fees for the free parking, snow-melt, sidewalk performers, and the many other amenities drawing huge crowds of local and vacationing people to Holland's downtown. Many transient and seasonal vendors would like to take advantage of this market, without equitably paying the past and current fees creating and providing the infrastructure and environment. If Holland lets this 13-year-old with a hot dog stand and a touching story purvey his product, then the town will have to allow all vendors, or be sued. Not fair to the downtown merchants or to the people that enjoy the downtown planned and protected by the town board. We live in a land in fear of litigation . . . taking an image beating by denying a boy and his hot dog stand pales in comparison to paying millions to lawyers and those they represent.