Tyranny in Your Front Yard

from Lewrockwell.com blog.

Tyrrany in Your Front Yard (Butler Shaffer, 9/1/09 LRC Blog)

"A news report advises that federal agents are beginning to swoop down on neighborhood yard sales, allegedly for the purpose of discovering whether federally-banned products are being resold by unsuspecting homeowners. This comes in the wake of local governments arresting and fining children who operate unlicensed lemonade stands. What next? Will federal SWAT teams descend on children’s birthday parties to inspect gifts to see if any violate product safety standards for toys? “And as long as we’re there, bring along some government nurses to vaccinate the little brats.”"

Yard sales, kids' "unlicensed" lemonade stands. The government doesn't know where and when to stop, does it?

For news of federal agents descending on yard sales which is yet to happen, click here. (The operation has a code name of course, and it is "Resale Roundup" (I wonder if it was named after the herbicide developed by Monsanto. Kill off those weeds like yard sales, unless we extract some tax out of the sales.)

For news of local governments arresting and fining children for unlicensed operation of selling lemonade, click here and here.

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