The lemonade stand crackdown illustrates a central law of bureaucracy: Regulation is unthinking and uncaring, allowing for no exceptions. There is no better illustration of this than the words of one public health official responding to a parent interested in having his child run a stand: “What the Lemonade Day organizers should teach the children…is about the importance of learning and obeying the government regulations that prohibit lemonade stands.
Iain Murray, The War on Lemonade (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
(Source: primal-libertarian, via thedailyfiona)
6 months ago