Out of work and need a little money? Have a kid you want to teach the principles of capitalism? Open a lemonade stand…right?
Not!
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Show notes:
00:50 Housekeeping
02:00 Where and when to find The Ploitical Coot, AKA “The Show”
02:30 Today’s show focus
03:35 Persoal history with lemonade stands
04:35 Government interferes with lemonade stands – the beginning
05:00 Examples
09:20 Government should protect one business from another?
11:25 What IS a lemonade stand?
12:30 The list begins…and a politician calls the cops
15:15 At least one good lesson learned
16:15 The list continues
18:00 More government protecting a business from another business
20:18 Good one!
22:15 Another good one! You can’t comply even when you comply!
23:15 Getting old. Government protecting established business from…a kid run lemonade stand
24:05 St Louis health inspector flat out lies…about kids
25:12 An unbelievable example
26:10 What we teach our children. Hilarious, if not so sad
Sources: FOXNews, The Agitator, and moFreedom.
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Bob,
I feel like Rip Van Winkle. What happened to Spring and Summer? We still see lemonade stands in my neighborhood. Maybe there is hope for California after all.