When Life Gives You Lemons…

…the government wants to take away your lemonade stand.

The War on Lemonade
Rich Lowry, National Review Online

In various localities around the country this summer, cops have raided and shut down lemonade stands. The incidents get — and deserve — national attention as telling collisions between classic Americana and the senseless pettifogging that is increasingly the American Way. There should be an easy rule of thumb for when enforcement of a regulation has gone too far: when it makes kids cry.

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