7 Year Old Julie Murphy 50 Cent Lemonade Stand Closed Because $120 Temporary Restaurant License Was Required

FILE THIS ONE UNDER … GOOD GRIEF, YOU MUST BE JOKING!!!

WHAT HAS THIS COUNTRY COME TO WHEN CHILDREN CAN NOT HAVE A ROADSIDE LEMONADE STAND!!!

7 year old Julie Murphy had her lemonade stand shut down  in Oregon City, OR because the powers that be IDIOTS of Multnomah County claimed that she did not have a $120 temporary restaurant license. Are you serious? Let this be a lesson to the youth of America, you are dealing with an out of control, heavy handed insane government that is looking to control your every action from cradle to grave. What’s next, a $200 license fee for selling mud pies? What ever happened to common sense in this country?

It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

Just curious, did Lucy of Peanuts fame have a license to practice psychiatry? Hmm? Better than that, a degree and was she board certified? I guess it’s a good thing that Lucy did not live in Oregon or she would be fined and serving jail time.

What a message this sends to children where it was once a right of massage an a way of life to have children selling lemonade in their cute and adorable sidewalk stands. Come on folks, why would 7 year old  Julie Murphy have to pay for a temporary restaurant license, she is too young to even pay taxes. Or is that next … arresting the 7 year old for not charging sales tax. As Another Black Conservative aptly states, its a sign of a government run amok.

This is a perfect example of where common sense has left the building. Because we have become a society that wants to live a risk free and irresponsible life, we elect government to watch out for us at every turn. The trade off is freedom is eroded and commonsense takes a backseat.

Did any of these inspectors ever stop to think that children’s lemonade stands have been around forever and millions of people have not keeled over and died because of them? If pass generations have successfully survived the hidden threat of “food-borne illness” from lemonade stands, then I think this generation can pull through just fine. We don’t need government to protect us from every tiny possible danger.

Every possible danger? Talk about your typical liberal BS! It is not the governments job to protect us from every possible danger. What’s next, children not allowed to play dodge ball? Oops bad example. Ok, how about climbing trees?

What has become of the country that we grew up in? The age old practice of having children learn the value of a dollar, in this case 50 cents, and the sense of accomplishment, entrepreneurship and pride in running their own little stand? Instead that dream is squelched by an over-reaching government and foolish bureaucrats who say you can only do it if you pay us first.

Exit Question: With all that is going on in this country … does government really need to be picking on children like this to make a buck? What a terrible message to send to children.

John Kerry’s Sails Tax Dodge on his $7 Million Yacht Wont Go Away

Massachusetts US Senator John Kerry, Taxes for Thee, not for Me.

The senior Senator from the Bay State is being question by Fox News Boston as to why he avoided paying taxes in Massachusetts on his $7 million yacht by docking it in Rhode Island where there is no Sails, sales tax on boats.

Kerry was heard to say following the interview, don’t they know who I am!

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

Kerry may still be on the hook for a half million dollars in excise taxes because he docked his yacht in Massachusetts less than six months after buying it.

The controversy came up following a report that Kerry moored the multi-million dollar yacht in Rhode Island , rather than the Bay State to save on sales tax.

A spokesman for the senator says Kerry never intended to evade taxes and kept the boat in Rhode Island for maintenance reasons.

Oh, of course the intent was never to evade the taxes. Listen to Kerry get all righteous when questioned about the sales tax on his $7 million boat. This coming from a man who says that evil business avoids taxes and expenses by taking jobs over seas. Hypocrite, what is the difference? Not only  did Kerry knowingly dock his boat in a state where he would have to pay no taxes to his home state of Massachusetts, he also had his boat built over seas taking jobs away from Americans.

I guess VP Joe Biden would not consider Senator Kerry patriotic.

Kerry wants rich people to pay more, except himself. Think about this folks, a Democrat who rails that rich people make too much money and should be taxed more is dodging his own tax burden by using a tax shelter. Kerry claims that he pays his fair share of taxes, really? If Kerry is going to tell others who make $250,000 a year to pay more taxes who could never afford a $7 million sailboat, then why isn’t he?

But it’s different for people like John Kerry and Democrats of wealth. They tell you what to do with your money, not their own.

Political Shipwreck: John Kerry’s Yacht, the SS Flip-Flop Built in New Zealand, What About American Workers Mr. Senator?

The story of John Kerry’s yacht, the S.S. Flip-Flop gets even better, or worse if you are an American ship builder.

John Kerry says, “Don’t you know who I am and hoe many taxes I pay?” It should be more than enough, why can’t I shelter my $7 million sail boat in a state that has now boat taxes?

Last week it was reported that Massachusetts US Senator John Kerry had avoided taxes in the Bay States by docking his $7 million sail boat in Rhode Island. But wait, the story has continued sea legs as “New England boat builders say shame on Sen. John Kerry for buying a $7 million New Zealand-built luxury yacht while local ship makers struggle to find work.”

“Darn, that would have been a wonderful job for a Maine builder,” said Jane Wellehan, president of the trade group Maine Built Boats. “If someone comes to build a $7 million boat that would employ half the population of some towns for a year or two. Boat building is such a critical component of our coastal economy.”

Gregory Egan, who owns the Crosby Yacht Yard in Osterville, said Bay State boat builders must feel cut adrift by Kerry as well.

“I’m confident that anything constructed in New Zealand could be constructed here in the state,” he said. “From a political perspective, it seems to me he could have thought twice about that one.”

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John Kerry, Never Met a “Sails” Tax I didn’t Like, Unless I had to Pay It Myself

Ever wonder why Congress has a confidence rating of 11%? They earned it!

Massachusetts Senator John “I voted for it before I voted against it” Kerry seems to have finally met a tax he did not like. In this case its a “SAILS” tax, not a sales tax.

John Kerry, the artful dodger

According to the Boston Herald, Kerry has avoided a six-figure state tax bill on his new multimillion-dollar yacht by mooring her in Newport, RI. But of course Kerry denies any wrong doing. Think you or I would get the benefit of the doubt in a matter like this? It is obvious what the intent is by docking the boat in Newport.

But instead of berthing the vessel in Nantucket, where the senator summers with the missus, Teresa Heinz, Isabel’s hailing port is listed as “Newport” on her stern.

Could the reason be that the Ocean State repealed its Boat Sales and Use Tax back in 1993, making the tiny state to the south a haven – like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Nassau – for tax-skirting luxury yacht owners?

Cash-strapped Massachusetts still collects a 6.25 percent sales tax and an annual excise tax on yachts. Sources say Isabel sold for something in the neighborhood of $7 million, meaning Kerry saved approximately $437,500 in sales tax and an annual excise tax of about $70,000.

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Remember the $700 Billion TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) … Its Now $3.7 Trillion

Because politicianswould never lie as to how much a program would actually cost tax payer, now would they? Welcome to Obamanomics.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP, that was told to America that would cost $700 billion is now estimated to cost $3.7 trillion. Yes you heard that correct, trillion with a “T”. Can you imagine how much Obamacare is really going to cost? Do any of you really believe it will save money?

Increased housing commitments swelled U.S. taxpayers’ total support for the financial system by $700 billion in the past year to around $3.7 trillion, a government watchdog said on Wednesday.

The Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program said the increase was due largely to the government’s pledges to supply capital to Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) and to guarantee more mortgages to the support the housing market.

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