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    Default Another Lil girls Biz shut down by the city...

    Behold the face of CRIME...
    she must be stopped!!!!
    making Cupcakes without a license.
    does she think she above DA LAW? That she can make MONEY and gov't not oversee and get their rightful cut. Can the gov't overlook this, if we overlook one we'd have to overlook THEM ALL!!
    that's the only way we ever do things, fair and square.


    11-year-old Chloe Stirling works on a designer cupcake. (Source: Derik Holtmann / Belleville News-Democrat)


    TROY, IL — An 11-year-old entrepreneur recently learned a lesson about the economics of living in a police state when her home-based cupcake business was closed-down by local bureaucrats.
    When people started noticing young Chloe Stirling’s cake decorating skills, they started requesting she bake them orders for birthdays and holidays. Her clever designs quickly turned into a childhood business venture, as her eager customers gave her money in exchange for birthday cakes and baked goods.
    She’s created some 3-dimensional designs with her cakes, including a soccer-ball cake filled with pudding and cupcakes shaped like high-heels. Her largest order topped out at 220 cupcakes. She has also donated batches to charity fundraisers.
    With twelve satisfied year-round clients, she began saving the money she made with the hope of buying her first car when she turns sixteen.
    In the long term, she hopes to open her own bakery with the money she saves.
    At least, she was, until the local county bureaucrats got wind of her creative spirit. When a local newspaper ran a favorable article about her cupcake decorating, the conscienceless regulators decided to seek out the child and quash her business.
    No Cupcakes For You

    Chloe Stirling shows off her cake-decorating skills. (Source: Heather Stirling via Facebook)


    The Madison County Health Department demanded that the girl stop selling cupcakes or face legal consequences. Chloe had to cancel a number of orders and was left broken-hearted.
    In order to sell cupcakes, another kitchen must be constructed in her family’s home, she must pay fees, and follow a number of arbitrary regulations. Or, she could acquire an expensive storefront, and be burdened with the costs of renting commercial property, buying equipment, and of course paying taxes and other assorted fees.
    She must obtain a permit from the government and allow inspectors to monitor her operation in order to avoid the wrath of county food controllers and abide by the Illinois State Food Sanitation Code.
    “A rule is a rule,” squawked spokeswoman Amy Yeager to KMOV.
    How Could Anyone Be Against Safety?

    Ms. Stirling’s plight is far from unique. While it is particularly infuriating when a child is crushed under the proverbial government boot, the fact is that the law oppresses everyone.
    Onerous requirements for commercial-grade kitchens, legal compliance, inspections, taxes, fees, and the like are all designed to keep the “little guy” (or girl) out of the market.
    Big name retailers hate competition, and therefore lobby to make the business start-ups extremely expensive and difficult. And while most Americans sheepishly believe that such regulations are there to keep them safe and healthy, the practical reality is that they simply serve to crush free enterprise and help create favorable market conditions for the existing giants a given market — be it cupcakes or manufactured goods or financial services.
    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Eating inspector-approved cupcakes cannot taste nearly as sweet as the freedom to do things without constantly needing permission.</cite>
    The system is designed to keep innovators like Chloe working for someone else — not competing with the powers that be. With all the artificially-imposed hassles and hurdles, working for an established company starts to seem much easier, cheaper, and less stressful. An honest start-up business has everything working against it.
    Anyone with economic literacy will acknowledge that this phenomenon is harmful to the economy and the employment rate. The government makes it illegal to work outside a narrow band of regulated actions. As restrictive as California is, the state recently demonstrated that loosening homemade food regulations created over one thousand new local businesses the first year.
    The idea that a government bureaucracy can keep people safe is a delusion. People get sick even from the most highly-regulated food sources. The red tape and regulation creates a false sense of security at best, and a crushing burden at worst. Eating inspector-approved cupcakes cannot taste nearly as sweet as the freedom to do things without constantly needing permission.
    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Contact information for the department is listed below. </cite>

    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Accountability Check</cite>

    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Tell the bureaucrats how you feel about them destroying American entrepreneurs.
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    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Madison County Health Department (Illinois)</cite>
    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Phone: (618) 692-8954</cite>
    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Email: health@co.madison.il.us</cite>
    <cite style="color: rgb(96,16,96); font-style: normal">Facebook: MadisonCHD</cite>

    Source: Police State USA
    Last edited by revelarts; 01-31-2014 at 08:12 AM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    Behold the face of CRIME...

    Can the gov't overlook this...
    TROY, IL — An 11-year-old entrepreneur recently learned a lesson about the economics of living in a police state when her home-based cupcake business was closed-down by local bureaucrats.
    That's some awesome hyperbole to start with. They can't really back down from that statement.

    The system is designed to keep innovators like Chloe working for someone else — not competing with the powers that be. With all the artificially-imposed hassles and hurdles, working for an established company starts to seem much easier, cheaper, and less stressful. An honest start-up business has everything working against it.
    Anyone with economic literacy will acknowledge that this phenomenon is harmful to the economy and the employment rate. The government makes it illegal to work outside a narrow band of regulated actions. As restrictive as California is, the state recently demonstrated that loosening homemade food regulations created over one thousand new local businesses the first year.
    The first bold statement is just ridiculous but at least they identify a solution at the end. The rules can certainly be dumb but how much discretion should we be giving the soulless regulators?
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    Quote Originally Posted by fj1200 View Post
    That's some awesome hyperbole to start with. They can't really back down from that statement.



    The first bold statement is just ridiculous but at least they identify a solution at the end. The rules can certainly be dumb but how much discretion should we be giving the soulless regulators?
    And whats wrong with a little Hyperbole FJ. the TSA assumes we all may be terrorist is that Hyperbole?

    lil girl can't run her biz cause bureaucratic wheels got moving after they saw her happy success and they will not stop until she complies.

    Is it Hyperbole when the State does STOP you while your not doing anything harmful to others.
    would you call it FREEDOM? Is that the term you'd use. what term would you use here?
    When the state stops you it's always at the threat of fine, jail or the gun right?

    You act like the US is NEVER a police nothing it does brings it to level of a police state.
    what does it take in your mind literally camps and general round ups. THEN it's a REAL police state , until then it's just regular ol laws that must be obeyed and secret spying on your phone, bank accounts, medical records and internet activity. That you can't know about. because the person who tells you is breaking the law. and secret police and the gov't only jailing and killing SOME people without trials. etc etc..

    that's not really a police state, WE CAN STILL VOTE RIGHT!?!
    Last edited by revelarts; 01-31-2014 at 12:36 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    lil girl can't run her biz cause bureaucratic wheels got moving after they saw her happy success and they will not stop until she complies.
    What's wrong with a little hyperbole is when it backs your argument into a corner. The problem is ANY lil biz is going to have problems because of overbearing regulations; fix the problems for any business of that size not just this one because it's a lil girl.

    Oh, and what is really wrong with a lot of hyperbole is when you have to manufacture where I stand which sums up the remainder of your post.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fj1200 View Post
    What's wrong with a little hyperbole is when it backs your argument into a corner. The problem is ANY lil biz is going to have problems because of overbearing regulations; fix the problems for any business of that size not just this one because it's a lil girl.

    Oh, and what is really wrong with a lot of hyperbole is when you have to manufacture where I stand which sums up the remainder of your post.
    soo kinda like i said, it's not a real police state tsk tsk, have to be vigil, until lot more happens though this is still America, . till then this is just gov't doing what govt's do. so work the system to change it, nothing wrong with the America I know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
    soo kinda like i said...
    No, there are crappy rules and regulations abounding in this country, especially IL. A Lil girl's biz is a symbol of what's wrong but not because she's 11.
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