The lemonade stand crackdown illustrates a central law of bureaucracy: Regulation is unthinking and uncaring, allowing for no exceptions. There is no better illustration of this than the words of one public health official responding to a parent interested in having his child run a stand: “What the Lemonade Day organizers should teach the children…is about the importance of learning and obeying the government regulations that prohibit lemonade stands.
Iain Murray, The War on Lemonade