Yet Another Reason California Sucks

My boyfriend currently lives in San Diego, so I travel to California about 4-6 times a year.

Despite all the (justified) crap we give it, there are a lot of things to love. The weather is phenomenal, there’s all kinds of amazing food and fun things to do, and it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth. On any given weekend(if you’re an efficient roadtripper) you can go from lush redwood forest, to mountaintops, to sunny beach, to desert… It has it all.

It really is paradise…

Until you get to the doorknobs that run the place. (and their SJW constituents, of course.)

A little girl learned the value of a dollar… and then she learned how much the government BLOWS.

Autumn Thomasson set up a lemonade stand outside her family’s home this summer. She made a whopping $70 bucks by selling lemonade for $1 a cup, candy for $1 and snacks for 50 cents. She used her earnings to buy a bicycle.

Way to go, Autumn!

But THEN some Grinch complained… And the city of Porterville issued Autumn’s mom a citation.

Give me a BREAK.

According to this:

It seems even the most innocent of gestures is not safe from the red tape of local law.

In Porterville, California, a five-year-old girl who set up a lemonade stand to raise money to buy herself a new bike has been told four months later that she needed a business license to do it.

Her mother received the warning in a citation from city hall which asked her to send back $25, the local fee for applying for a new license.

It was prompted by a complaint from a member of the public, according to officials who have since apologized.
Autumn Thomasson proudly set up the stand outside her family’s home in June.

She raised around $70, more than she had hoped, by selling lemonade for $1 a cup, candy for $1 and snacks for 50 cents.

Afterwards, the ecstatic five-year-old then used the money to buy herself a new bicycle.

But this week, Dehaas took to social media to furiously reveal she had been cited by local officials.

Their letter to her included a print-out of the Facebook page where Autumn had proudly showed off her stand and invited local friends and family to stop by.

Um… that’s creepy.

The caption reads:

What kind of world do we live in where kids can’t do lemonade stand or any kind of stands for that matter without getting in trouble?! How are we expose to show our kids to work hard for what they want and to expand their ideas/entrepreneurship if they need a license for every little thing! I just got fined for my daughter have a 3 hour lemonade a couple months ago, so she could know how to earn enough money, to know a value of a dollar! 😡 I’m not mad about the money for the fine I’m mad about the pettiness of the reasoning. These things are just straight wrong!

She’s exactly right.

The town has apologized in the lamest way possible….

Porterville officials have since revealed that they received a complaint about Autumn’s stand.

The letter was sent in response to that complaint but they have since retracted their demand for the $25 fee.
‘There’s no excuse why it should have been sent.

‘We want our youth to be engaged and looking at business opportunities,’ Porterville City Manager John Lollis told Fox News.

He reassured local people they did not need a business license or permit to set up a lemonade stand.

So there were no adults at Porterville capable of determining it was a BS complaint against a little girl’s lemonade stand?

Whatever.