Posted on 02/02/2014 7:51:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Michael Snyder, the columnist, safely omits the names of the government officials involved, thus helping perpetrate the brutal clampdown.
What a wuss, leaving the children to face the government goons alone.
This cupcake venture is how businesses start up. They slowly build capital until they can afford to buy a commercial kitchen. Who has a vested interest in forcing small businesses to capitalize via a loan vs growth?
Little guy just can’t grow a business as it has been done for thousands of years. Not here. Not in “This Land Of Liberty”.
There is a strong totalitarian streak in liberalism. These liberal laws, which perhaps had the best of intentions, have the effect of forbidding a little girl from selling her homemade cupcakes. Unbelievable.
re: Michael Snyder, the columnist, safely omits the names of the government officials involved, thus helping perpetrate the brutal clampdown.
I think a few names were provided in the links of the article.
In this article for instance:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ga-police-shut-down-girls-lemonade-stand/
“Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn’t know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.”
I’m going to disagree with the tone of the article and how it casts the State in this instance.
A kid has a lemonade stand 3 times a year - no problem.
Start an ongoing business, there are standards the state forces on all businesses.
That said, I hate Illinois’ punitive regime and will never again do business there. No matter what the law reads, they will take it further.
I used to travel there 4x/year. I used to have clients there. Now I avoid going to conferences there so they do not benefit from my money. You might as well donate money directly to the Demoncrats of Illinois. I no longer have clients there and will never accept one.
She needs to go undergound, man! (said with a Cheech voice)
I have considered starting a business making prototypes using a 3D printer. I am y now have to rethink that.
Don’t call Liberals liberal. That word has been hijacked by the collectivists control freaks.
Think liberal as in liberty! That doesn’t apply to them.
It was probly her chief competition, “The Grumpy ‘Ol Biddies Tarts” down the block that called the Nazies.
Small town business is cutthroat!
“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.
She was probably violating some provision of the Interstate Commerce Clause. We can’t have that now!
Guaranteed if this was an illegal alien or other Protected Minority, the Ethnic Racists groups would be out in full force claiming racism...and sales would continue
Government needs to be reduced...and neither main party is willing to do it
uaranteed if this was an illegal alien or other Protected Minority, the Ethnic Racists groups would be out in full force claiming racism...and sales would continue
Government needs to be reduced...and neither main party is willing to do it
Someone I know has personal knowledge of someone who does this. A Hispanic woman, legal status unknown, bakes bread and pastries, and makes sandwiches every day in her kitchen. She and her husband drive a food truck to sell her food at construction sites and on downtown streets at lunch hour. Nobody from the government is hassling them.
Make sure to declare it to the local tax assessor. If you don’t they will find out one day and “assess” the value at $100,000 and tax you on that until you prove otherwise. Believe me. I know first hand. The county hires liitle fat thugs and let them run wild on the shops out here.
Start an ongoing business, there are standards the state forces on all businesses.And that right there is the biggest problem. Too many "standards" which are overbearing, costly, and in many cases unecessary.
That "totalitarian streak" was foreseen by many opponents of efforts to "transform" America from its foundations in liberty as early as the late 1800's.
Such thinkers have been exposing socialism's tyrannical principles and goals for more than a century now. Those who have understood it best declared that its policies lead to tyranny and oppression.
Yet, we have arrogant Americans, born in liberty, and viewing themselves as "intellectuals" and "progressives," who have embraced socialist ideas over the ideas of liberty and are determined to impose its deadly limitations on a once-free people.
Such limitations include those cited in the article quoted above, in almost every area of personal and national life, as well as in the so-called "progressives'" absolute determination to impose its will through ACA in support of population control.
From the Liberty Fund Library is "A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic Legislation," edited by Thomas Mackay (1849 - 1912), originally published in 1891, Chapter 1, excerpted final paragraphs from Edward Stanley Robertson's essay:
"I have suggested that the scheme of Socialism is wholly incomplete unless it includes a power of restraining the increase of population, which power is so unwelcome to Englishmen that the very mention of it seems to require an apology. I have showed that in France, where restraints on multiplication have been adopted into the popular code of morals, there is discontent on the one hand at the slow rate of increase, while on the other, there is still a 'proletariat,' and Socialism is still a power in politics.
I.44
"I have put the question, how Socialism would treat the residuum of the working class and of all classes—the class, not specially vicious, nor even necessarily idle, but below the average in power of will and in steadiness of purpose. I have intimated that such persons, if they belong to the upper or middle classes, are kept straight by the fear of falling out of class, and in the working class by positive fear of want. But since Socialism purposes to eliminate the fear of want, and since under Socialism the hierarchy of classes will either not exist at all or be wholly transformed, there remains for such persons no motive at all except physical coercion. Are we to imprison or flog all the 'ne'er-do-wells'?
I.45
"I began this paper by pointing out that there are inequalities and anomalies in the material world, some of which, like the obliquity of the ecliptic and the consequent inequality of the day's length, cannot be redressed at all. Others, like the caprices of sunshine and rainfall in different climates, can be mitigated, but must on the whole be endured. I am very far from asserting that the inequalities and anomalies of human society are strictly parallel with those of material nature. I fully admit that we are under an obligation to control nature so far as we can. But I think I have shown that the Socialist scheme cannot be relied upon to control nature, because it refuses to obey her. Socialism attempts to vanquish nature by a front attack. Individualism, on the contrary, is the recognition, in social politics, that nature has a beneficent as well as a malignant side. The struggle for life provides for the various wants of the human race, in somewhat the same way as the climatic struggle of the elements provides for vegetable and animal life—imperfectly, that is, and in a manner strongly marked by inequalities and anomalies. By taking advantage of prevalent tendencies, it is possible to mitigate these anomalies and inequalities, but all experience shows that it is impossible to do away with them. All history, moreover, is the record of the triumph of Individualism over something which was virtually Socialism or Collectivism, though not called by that name. In early days, and even at this day under archaic civilisations, the note of social life is the absence of freedom. But under every progressive civilisation, freedom has made decisive strides—broadened down, as the poet says, from precedent to precedent. And it has been rightly and naturally so.
I.46
"Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON
The Obama administration, crushing one small business at a time!
Interesting. I think I know where one of those shops is. There’s a big old house that basically over the years has turned into just another smelly gift shop. They used to have really interesting stuff but no more. A friend told me that the house next door is where the interesting stuff is now but there are no signs on it. I think I’ll check it out. Now that I think of it, all the neat old antique stores around have dried up too. Curse you BO!!!! Only cheap Chinese imports for me to buy. Recreational shoppers of the world unite!!!!!
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