More and more Entrepreneurial kids learning what our tax dollars pay for
Posted Saturday, August 29th, 2009Still think government is starving and stripped down because of revenue shortfalls? Still think this country’s politicians have cut public programs to the marrow and directed precious tax dollars only to “essential services”? 
Try selling that sob story to Riverside Park, N.Y., residents Richard and Clementine Lee.
On Saturday, Mr. Lee helped his 10-year-old daughter realize a yearlong entrepreneurial dream: opening a neighborhood lemonade stand.
“It was such a hot day, I figured people would want a cold drink,” the girl said. She baked chocolate-chip cookies to diversify the menu, then set up shop on a corner outside a park, under her father’s watch. In her first 20 minutes of business, she sold 10 glasses of lemonade at 50 cents apiece, and her inventory of cookies was cleared out.
A future taxpaying, job-creating small-business owner was being born before Mr. Lee’s eyes.
Enter the Regulatory State. City parks department agents began circling the stand like vultures. Read full story:
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