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I read 4 of those articles, none of which are a "war against kids' lemonade stands", and all of which involve violations/disputes that tangentially had kids or

I read 4 of those articles, none of which are a "war against kids' lemonade stands", and all of which involve violations/disputes that tangentially had kids or lemonade involved, before I stopped giving you the benefit of the doubt. I saw: * Anti-competition ordinances around a special event * Lemonade stand on a busy intersection * At a specially permitted farmers' market, a vendor (not even a kid) crashing the market to sell his stuff, with a bonus dispute over the right to film police The "War on Lemonade Stands" angle is propaganda: it's inventing a misleading emotionally-powerful angle in order to add rhetorical power to an argument over a separate issue.

scythe 15y ago
Uh, what? Top story, top link. >Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits. >Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it. [...] >The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year. [...] >The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money. That was nothing like you described.