Texas governor signs bill legalizing lemonade stands run by children

[DonViejo]

BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 06/11/19 10:58 AM EDT

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) late Monday signed a bill that legalizes lemonade stands run by children after police had shut down a lemonade stand in a Texas town.

“Here is a common sense law,” Abbott said in a Twitter video. “It allows kids to sell lemonade at lemonade stands. We had to pass it because police shut down a lemonade stand here in Texas.”

“So kids,” Abbott paused to pick up a glass of lemonade. “Cheers.

Link to tweet

The bill prohibits cities and neighborhood associations from enacting rules that block or regulate minors trying to sell nonalcoholic beverages on private property, The Texas Tribune reported.

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[jberryhill]

1. Wait until Big Lemonade gets their hands on this

They'll use kids to front for a large-scale lemonade stand operation near clusters of fast food restaurants.

Each stand is "kid owned and operated", but they provide the stand, supplies and signage for a licensing fee plus a percentage, like a franchise.

You can undercut the other fast food places on not collecting and paying the sales tax.

Then hire some older kids to let independents know that nothing bad will happen to them if they buy into the organized lemonade stand scheme.

[madinmaryland]

4. The NLA. Only a good guy with lemonade can stop a bad guy with lemonade.

[woodsprite]

2. I have fond memories of running a

lemonade/bake sale, even a "circus" to raise donations for Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon. Our parents would drive us to WPVI studios in Philly so we could put the donations in the big fishbowl ourselves.

[CTyankee]

3. I bet the gov. likes it because it teaches capitalism to kids...

and I'm being serious...

[Marengo]

5. What's wrong with that?

[LanternWaste]

6. Bless your heart...

You're really trying, ain't ya?