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Selling off my collection of stamps from my home or allowing my child to sell lemonade is also commerce, yet I am allowed to do it. This is where the original
by braveo 10y ago
Selling off my collection of stamps from my home or allowing my child to sell lemonade is also commerce, yet I am allowed to do it.
This is where the original poster went off the rails. Just because there's an exchange of money does not mean these laws do, or should, apply.
- spc476 10y agoAnd yes, authorities do shut down lemonade stands: https://www.google.com/search?q=authority+shut+down+lemonade+stand&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=authority+shut+down+lemonade... I think it's silly, but there it is.
- braveo 10y agoright, someone has done it somewhere. I knew that when I made the comment, it doesn't change the general applicability of the point.
- azernik 10y agoThey're legal because the government has not decided to make them illegal. If the government decides that your lemonade stand is a danger to public health, or that your stamp collection is a national patrimony and cannot leave the country, it will make new laws that enforce those decisions.
- Tempest1981 10y agoOr, they're illegal, but the law isn't enforced, so people feel they are legal.
- 1_2__3 10y agoOf course they shut down lemonade stands. Especially if you tried to run a daily lemonade stand out of your front yard, staffed by people who don't live there.