Posted on 09/06/2014 12:57:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Zoning laws exist for a reason.
The last fifty years of ingesting. sugar has made us all addicts!
"a permanent hot dog stand or a snow-cone business next door in his front yard" - again with the straw man arguments...[shakes head]. Again, please show us in this story where the child was selling hot dogs or snow cones, or where this was a permanent, year-round business.
I feel sorry for the kids in your neighborhood.
Just for the record I didn’t refer to young people as being stupid or in any other derogatory way.
Still, you bring up a good point that I never considered and I bet it slipped by most people. The younger generations don’t make the rules, run up the debt, drive the propaganda, etc., and therefore cannot be blamed for trying to navigate in a world they’ve been brought into.
But their parents and grandparents can for sure.
Outrageous! Look at all the damage this evil child is doing to the property values in this development! He should be arrested!
(or at least that's what some apparently think, I guess)
Oh, and that’s clearly a permanent, year-round hot dog and sno-cone stand!
I personally wouldn’t call it in.
But people also have the right to live quiet and peaceful lives.
My kids have businesses, but we figure out ways to let neighbors enjoy their lives, too.
The article says it’s a summer-long business.
Manta says that Bayport Financial Service opened up in 2006; has a single location; 5 to 9 employees and is classed in the half million to one million range.
It would seem that Dougie has been running his operation out of a residential zoned area; has never obtained a permit or paid the fees for nine years; and probably has some employees parking on his lot or on the street.
Hey Dougie, are you paying the requisite payroll taxes on your troops? Are you claiming your buildings on your IRS returns? Are the Dunedin property taxes higher on commercial operations? If so, did you pay that rate?
We are just curious buddy.
True, you did not. I was generalizing.
A person who is in his early 60s now, like the antagonist in this story, was born in the early 1950s. Many posters say this was an absolutely marvelous period in American history. However, somehow this man turned out to be both a nuisance and a hypocrite. People his age are at the top of politics and corporations.
Back in the early fifties I would spend a few hours after church, popping my special popcorn with special spices, box it, put it in my red wagon and sell it to the folks all around the neighborhood, for their Sunday afternoon snack.
Had great success, but probably because I was a cute little tike.
I wonder how I could do that today, as Mooch’s police would ban the carbs; the FDA would tell me that I hadn't prepared it with gloves on; the town and state would tell me- not licensed; the EPA would certainly cite my noncompliance, causing global warming from cooking oil in my basement; the state would force me to buy a sales tax license, and my $.50 cent popcorn would cost $.55&1/2 cents, with my CPA monitoring my tax reimbursements; the police would tell me to get my little red wagon off the street, and get back onto a sidewalk; my lawyer would advise me to get liability insurance, in case a customer got a kernal caught in his throat,
And finally my Dad would have said; Son, it's not worth it, here's $4.00 to get you off the street, just sit your fat ass down, and watch some TV, while eating your special popcorn!
I'm sure ol' Dougie has a promising career (if he doesn't already have one) in some Kafkaesque bureaucratic government agency. Rules for thee but not for me, ya know?
What really disheartens me are the Freepers on this thread who apparently are on this RATs’ side.
sounds like an house needing a egging.
Thanks for the ping!
i was thinking union schoolteacher or some other union govt worker. possibly psychologist or social worker, maybe dnr worker.
I believe it is.
The only “real issue” would be health any other “issue”is mere governmental oppression.
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