Posted on 03/24/2008 1:22:55 PM PDT by chickpundit
As more and more schools turn to healthy snack alternatives, a candy black market is emerging. Some students now bring candy-laden backpacks to school to sell to other students for profit.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/candy_5497___article.html/profit_sales.html
What’s truly needed to stem the candy tide are more candy-control laws. If we can limit its sale, fewer children will be the victims of cavities, hyper-activity, and parental rage. There are especially dangerous brands of candy, infused with caffeine, that should be banned altogether. We need to offer tax-payer sponsored candy buy-back programs to get dangerous candy off the streets. A 7-day waiting period before children can purchase candy could keep children with prior confectionery infractions from purchasing these harmful treat
Sounds like a job for MrLeRoy.
where I live there is a plan to do just that in Maine. The BIG government wants to ban the sale of power drinks to minors. Yeah! Good luck!
Candy doesn’t make kids fat, kids with candy for sale do.
Candy 'Control' Laws...didn't she star in several Babes-in-Bondage flicks in the late 1980's?
I used to sell candy at school back when I was a kid. The different school clubs and etc. would create a market demand for M&Ms and etc. and then at the end of the designated candy sale there’d be this market just hungering for a distribution solution. Being a proper capitalist, I invested in candy and (after the designated candy sale was done) I started selling candy to a happy marketplace. In many months I made far more money (and tax free, too) than any of my classmates who toiled away at a fast food joint. The kids who are enterprising enough to sell legal goods should be puled out of the worthless public schools and sent to appropriate private schools where their natural entrepeneurial skills can be better honed and maximized.
If the government would just legalize all candy, then kids wouldn’t get fat selling illegal candy to other kids.
M&M's are an "entry" candy. They lead to more serious candies like Snicker's Bars and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Reese's Peanut Butter cups are the "heroin" of the candy world. We need a total prohibition on this, and several Alphabet federal agencies created pronto.
You should be ashamed of yourself, candy pusher.
I'm not even ashamed of the fact that I never declared my income (which in 1982 was easily better than $1,000 per month during school).
That fact alone should warrant you getting a “meet & greet” with the SWAT team at your house.
ping
I suspect gang involvement in our local candy sales. Some of the wealthier kids are even getting into exotics...like Zero bars, and Pepsin gum.
HOLD IT! Put the Snickers DOWN and step away SLOWLY! You are under ARREST you candy eating fat ass!
When candy is outlawed only outlaws will have candy.
Slight disagreement. Kids who don’t get exercise get fat. In the meantime, I overheard two skinny kids remark that they were dieting. All of this talk about kids getting fat has made the kids paranoid, and disrespectful towards those kids/adults who are overweight. I’ll take a kid who needs to lose 5-10 pounds over a kid who thinks they are fat but looks like a starvation victim.
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