Ten Things We Did As Children That Would Get You In Big Trouble Today

#5. RUN A LEMONADE STAND

There’s a war on corporations in this country and it begins with your kid’s lemonade stand!

There’s a war alright! It’s the war against teaching children the value of hard work, entrepreneurship and good old-fashioned American capitalism.

Texas sisters Andria, 8, and Zoey Green, 7, wanted to raise about $100 to take their dad to Splash Kingdom as a Father’s Day present, so they set up a traditional neighborhood lemonade stand.

Cops shut it down because Texas law prohibits the sale of any food items that could spoil without proper temperature control and lemonade is included. In addition to a permit, a health inspection must take place before a permit is granted.

Seriously, Texas?

The real lesson these sisters walked away with was the hard lesson that pitfalls of an economy absent of a free market. Remember girls, you are free to make money and start a business, just don’t cross that line…and that line…oh! And THAT line, too. In fact, forget about working, just ask the government to pay for dad’s gift.