What's the point of regulating lemonade stands?

[CaseyJones]

http://theweek.com/article/index/255939/whatrsquos-the-point-of-regulating-lemonade-stands


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.

[Origanalist]

That's easy. You don't do anything without the government controlling it. Don't like it? Tell it to the judge.

[ZENemy]

The only POINT the government has is the one sticking in your back demanding you volunteer to be a slave.

[Pericles]

A kid might get the idea that you should be able to keep the money you earn, and want to apply that principle later in life.

[Origanalist]

A kid might get the idea that you should be able to keep the money you earn, and want to apply that principle later in life.

Absolutely, we can't have the kiddies getting any bright idea's.

[otherone]

In many cases, the petty tyrant is your neighbor, who called in the complaint.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/old-man-with-cane_square.jpg

We get the government we deserve.

[Brian4Liberty]

In many cases, the petty tyrant is your neighbor, who called in the complaint.


And the "authoritays" who will act with extreme prejudice upon any and every complaint, without thought or reason applied.

[donnay]

It's all about control.

[mrsat_98]

http://theweek.com/article/index/255939/whatrsquos-the-point-of-regulating-lemonade-stands


A kid might get the idea that you should be able to keep the money you earn, and want to apply that principle later in life.


Absolutely, we can't have the kiddies getting any bright idea's.

Get to those young minds early.

[Acala]

In many cases, the petty tyrant is your neighbor, who called in the complaint.
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/old-man-with-cane_square.jpg

We get the government we deserve.

This is exactly right.

[Dr.3D]

A lot of it is about money. The state makes money when they sell a permit.

[DamianTV]

False Sense of Control and the Govt is addicted to it.