It seems that gone are the days where you could hire your neighbor's entrepreneurial go-getter of a child to cut your grass in exchange for money.
Now that summer is here it seems that it is almost a right of passage for the business minded child or teen to create flyers offering their services to help neighbors mow their lawn. Heck, it just isn't summer without the smell of freshly cut grass in the air, but that may all soon change.
It seems that there are sections of this country that feel those kids should have a permit before mowing one blade of grass in exchange for money. As crazy as it sounds it's true. so let's look at the details of this new way of thinking and see if it will soon be affecting your area.
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Cray Cray.
only in America…..
This is ridiculous. Why would children have to buy a permit to make what very few dollars they get enough is enough
A teen isn’t old enough to sign contracts or start a business and shouldn’t be fined for it.
Don’t blame them for being lazy then.
that’s a complete load of bull s**t
Permit this…license that….really?!! …watch out neighborhood lemonade stands..
They should rather be checking for green cards on the people complaining…
They’ve been doing that for years. In the 90s my cousin and I got a fine for having a lemonade stand.
Criminal government needs its piece of the action.
Only adults under our laws can agree to sign legal documents, get licenses, etc. (Yeah, I know, fishing licenses for teenagers is an exception in some states). Money-grubbing politicians just looking for more chances to steal from their citizens!!
Government alwAys with hands in our pockets. Just another “tax” disguised as a permit. Having to buy our rights and liberties back at a cost, paid to a corrupt system put in place to control the populace with fear of harsh penalty if we don’t comply.
f**k the government that was my first job and it made me have a work ethic you fucktards you forget you work for us and when we all realise that you are screwed!!!
Founding fathers would’ve started shooting by now
Just another way for the government to get their hands on your money!
Oh so this is how you make America great again ….
Lemonade stands already require permits in most communities. Just takes one neighbor to complain to code enforcement or the local police.
f**k our government!
Nobody can do$#%&!@*these days without the government having there dickskinners in the money pot smh this is how I bought my school clothes growing up
Give the child a gift of 20.00 and he can cut the lawn as a favor
Lol whats next. Lemonade stand raids.
Heard on news the other day. It started as a bunch of adult landscaping business owners complaining they were losing business. Somewhere in alabama. Don’t think it was passed yet. Just one little city from the report
I bet lawn care company’s were behind that.
So. How supost my kids go to learn responsibility.? ?? In the gangs ??? Stealing ?? O being lazy couch potato ?? Or playng games
Or being coyote? ???
We tray so hard to make are kids. Good citizens. But with this politics is very hard. This is why
America have the most high population in the jails ….. Everything. Is against The law to sad!!!!!!
People say kids are lazy, but when kids are motivated to work and make money states pull this crap?
We have too many in government service. Here’s where we can start trimming. If you landscapers were worth a crap, you wouldn’t be fighting with kids over a few lawns. They don’t get industrial sites. Many employers check green cards before letting your workers onto their campuses. Is this why you’re bitching? Sending the government after a bunch of kids?
Spot on!
It is unfortunate so many do not see what is and has been going on.
Its all about our money, and how they can get their hands on it. Pathetic
Yeah…..but what sort of busy body, low life, POS would report them?
Actually a teen can legally sign a contract and start a business. Have you ever read about these young entrepreneurs that are all under 18? They have legit businesses. They had to get their license, register it etc. So yea they can.
Because they’re acting as a business. A business is something that provides a good/service to the public for a profit. Regardless of age they’re acting as a business so I see why they’re asking for them to lay the licnese fee.
Sounds like I need to do my research. The misses and I have two teenager’s. ☺
If that’s the case why aren’t lemonade stands required to have permits? It’s just a money grab. I agree with Gary Grey Crocker
Lemonade stand raids have already started happening.
Lmao…. Murcia!….$#%&!@*I’m glad I don’t live in your country
I assume that all of you know that the EPA is behind a program to tax property owners based on how much rain water runs off your property and into public waterways. Also some states have made it illegal to collect the rain water coming off your roof to use for your garden. They are claiming that rainwater is public property.
Gardendale. It is a suburb of Birmingham.
So true!!
All it is corrupted government trying to make money off of kids. So this country has messed up values. Government wants people to depend on them and force us to depend on them so they can control us and force us into slavery
In the US constitution it says if the law is wrong you can stand up and fight it. Well i think kids should mow grass and stand up and fight it cause this is wrong.
That’s when you start mowing for your neighbors out of the goodness of your heart. Then accept small gifts of appreciation.
Tell the government that they are cutting grass for free. How are they going to prove they are getting paid? Personally I like cutting grass, along with the smell of freshly cut grass.
WTF is this s**t
Kinda like a libertarian tip to a waitress.
Gift, no tip.
Exactly.
Unfortunately it seems like the only people making an issue of this are the lawn crews owned by adults in the area that view this as a threat to talking money they could be making themselves. Our government has alot of stupid laws, like Mississippi didn’t make owning a slave illegal until 1994 but people with common sense knew not to try it just because it wasn’t technically against the law. The problem here are citizens telling on the kids, not the law which was probably written without thinking people would be so fucking petty.
Well if everyone would mind their business and stop telling on their neighbors then this obviously could not be enforced.
Gotta keep the illegals working