**Posted by Phineas
This is one case where I was ahead of the good folks at Reason.TV [1]. The Nanny of the Month award-winner for June is the Montgomery County, MD, bureaucrat who fined children $500 for running a lemonade stand without a permit:
I covered the story [2] a couple of weeks ago, but now, having seen the video, don’t those kids look like dangerous scofflaws? [3]
And this wasn’t the first time [4] the government has gone after lemonade stands run by cute kids.
I suspect a conspiracy. Or stupidity.
Definitely stupidity.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [5])