You mean like the incontrovertible fact that businesses routinely poisoned and maimed their employees and customers with unsafe products and equipment, until they were regulated to stop doing so? You mean that kind of realism?
I get that you're kinda young and raging against the machine and all, and I'm sure you can find perfectly valid examples where the government has overreached. That does not justify reflexive rejection of everything the government does as unnecessary or malevolent.
you are talking about big companies, I just mean a tent selling bottled drinks and candy bars...big difference.
Depends on how big a tent we're talking and also how much volume.
A small setup that does a respectable amount of business--enough for one or two kids to handle? Sure, that's probably fine. I can trust that the kids keep the cooler clean and used off-the-shelf mixes to make their drinks or whatever.
Once you start to need more help, though, it's hard to ensure things are clean and that basic safety standards are met. It's not that hard for someone to get salmonella or something else from your little drink stand because you didn't properly sanitize.
The government shouldn't be in the business of shutting down kids' lemonade stands--and according to the article, it really isn't. It's going after the larger enterprises that are more obviously commercial, as well they should.
If you have the money for a large tent, coolers, and to go out and buy pre-bottled drinks, you are not a "lemonade stand" anymore. It's a distinctly commercial retailing establishment.
