> Any purchase I make at one stand is a lost opportunity for another stand. Really? You find a kids' lemonade stand in your neighborhood and find yourself thin

> Any purchase I make at one stand is a lost opportunity for another stand. Really? You find a kids' lemonade stand in your neighborhood and find yourself thinking: a) "Man! I really want to drive out of my neighborhood and buy from stranger kids but this stand right here makes it terribly inconvenient for me". Or more like b) "look how cute, I'll plunk down a quarter to really inspire my neighborhood kids' entrepeneur spirit!". Your purchase was never an opportunity for another stand. I hope you don't seriously think you can legislate opportunity. > why should kids receive special treatment? Is it so hard to see? It's a calculated risk, a trade-off. You can spend a few cents here and now, maybe even spill the lemonade around the corner, but helped some young minds dream that they can one day make the whole of society richer by being wealth creators. Society's risk? a bad tasting lemonade? It's all upside, no downside. Why should kids not follow food regulations? good question. Why should anyone? I don't want to go to that rabbit hole, but it's easy to see how a little protection here, and a little there, leads to more rules for regulations' sake. We have so many laws no grown-up can keep up, not even lawyers, and to me it's clearly unreasonable to think that a child could or even would.