Oregon Officials Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand

[greenhills]

Yeah, you're right. The sole purpose for this whole scheme is probably because the entirety of the family income for the year is what revenue can be generated from these tax-free and license-free lemonade stands.

You're a fucking genius.

your response makes no sense, you don't claim the income of dependents.

[Kohan]

Here's what I take issue with:

"When you've got 15,000 people, it's no longer a neighborhood event, it's a regional event," she told the newspaper.

Evidently, people have forgotten how huge a region ordinarily is (in local government terms), and how high populations are in your average urban city. 15,000 is nothing.

Someone else has mentioned that this was a local fair where the majority of people didn't pay for permits either. If that was the case, the lemonade stand wasn't out of the ordinary.

Personally, I don't care if the woman set it up without her daughter even being there. If an unlicensed cart, table, etc., was the norm at this gathering, she was going with the flow. If the health department was aware of the festival beforehand and hadn't already tried to contact its organizers, they evidently didn't care about it much.

The whole article, sensationalism aside, speaks of a lazy reaction rather than proactive behavior. If they want to regulate events like these, that's fine; they should probably do that through the proper channels instead of being disruptive douchebags, then.