County Government Shuts Down 7 Year Olds Lemonade Stand - Demands $120 Licensing Fee

[feralkid]

Great song, bad example. I believe the guy who sang this song about the terrible taxman-is worth something like $640 million.

He's dead, Jim.

 

[nobodyknows]

Why should anyone be the intended target? Can you give me one good reason why the .gov has a right to $120 of mine if I want to start a lemonade business? Is it... just because? I mean seriously, wtf. They already get to tax me on my profits.

Because we already know what big business does if not regulated.

1906: Rumble over 'The Jungle'
By JON BLACKWELL / The Trentonian
Upton Sinclair was a desperately poor, young socialist hoping to remake the world when he settled down in a tarpaper shack in Princeton Township and penned his Great American Novel.

He called it "The Jungle," filled it with page after page of nauseating detail he had researched about the meat-packing industry, and dropped it on an astonished nation in 1906.

An instant best-seller, Sinclair's book reeked with the stink of the Chicago stockyards. He told how dead rats were shoveled into sausage-grinding machines; how bribed inspectors looked the other way when diseased cows were slaughtered for beef, and how filth and guts were swept off the floor and packaged as "potted ham."

In short, "The Jungle" did as much as any animal-rights activist of today to turn Americans into vegetarians.

But it did more than that. Within months, the aroused -- and gagging -- public demanded sweeping reforms in the meat industry.

President Theodore Roosevelt was sickened after reading an advance copy. He called upon Congress to pass a law establishing the Food and Drug Administration and, for the first time, setting up federal inspection standards for meat.

 

[OutHouse]

It's about health, how do you know the girl washed her hands and handled food properly and there are no feces in the lemonade? You don't, you need a health inspector to verify, health inspectors need to get paid, hence the $120 fee. The girl is getting a free lesson in the costs of doing business, particularly food business. Are you saying 7 year olds need to be exempt from licensing requirements? Should they be able to open a Dr's office and write prescriptions without a license too?

how do you know there isnt shit in the food you ordered at your favorite dining spot? answer is you dont until 24 hours later when you are puking your guts out. so your point about being inspected is stupid. do you think each meal is inspected? Also making a comparison from a 7 year olds lemonade stand to writing scrips for Valium is beyond retarded even for you.