Cops Shutdown High School Kids Trying To Earn Money By Shoveling Snow
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In America, “Land of Opportunity,” you are free to pursue your dreams of financial freedom, provided you have filled out the proper form and been extorted by the proper bureaucrat.
Two teenage boys from Bridgewater, New Jersey are getting a hard does of this statism after their pursuance of financial freedom landed them in hot water with the fuzz.
Earlier this week, Matt Molinari and his friend Eric Schnepf, both seniors in High School, were going door-to-door advertising their snow shoveling services in advance of the storm. School was out, and instead of sitting inside and playing XBOX, these two young entrepreneurs felt the fire of enterprise and decided to turn their down time into an actual dime.
However, Molinari and Schnepf apparently didn’t realize that in order to make a dime you have to pay a quarter — to the state. When the two boys were out trying to rustle up some business during what they saw as an opportunity, along came the uniformed agents of the state, to put this unapproved business venture out to pasture.
“We weren’t looking to break the law. We just didn’t know the law,” Molinari tells Jim Smith on his WCBS 880 radio show.
The cops then gave these two kids a lesson in statist economics, which consequently ended their high school snow shoveling business.
“They need a permit, unpermitted solicitation is not allowed,” Molinari said, recalling what the police told them.
In this particular county, anyone selling goods and services door to door must apply for a license that can cost as much as $450 for permission that is valid for only 180 days; after all freedom ain’t free.
“We don’t make the laws but we have to uphold them,” Police Chief Michael Jannone said Tuesday, in true statist fashion, after reading some of the online comments about the incident.
The teens’ story quickly started gaining traction in a local Bound Brook Facebook group after a resident witnessed police shaking down Schnepf after going to his door.
“Are you kidding me? Our generation does nothing but complain about his generation being lazy and not working for their money,” he wrote on Bound Brook NJ Events‘ page. “Here’s a couple kids who take the time to print up flyers, walk door to door in the snow, and then shovel snow for some spending money. And someone calls the cops and they’re told to stop?”
The two teens have, rightfully so, been met with loads of support.
After being questioned by reporters and seeing the backlash against them, the Bound Brook police chief did some back peddling and told MyCentralJersey.com they are not cracking down on kids shoveling, but rather that it was a state of emergency and should not have been out.
Unfortunately the young entrepreneurial spirit is often stomped into a sad puddle in this land of the ostensibly free. Similar bans around the country have nixed the learning stages of free enterprise by putting an end to practices such as lemonade stands and selling Girl Scouts cookies.
In October of 2013, The Free Thought Project reported on the incident in Washington DC in which dozens of cops were dispatched, not because there were armed gunman threatening to ? hostages, or because of a bomb threat, or riot, but because a group of rowdy kids would dare sell lemonade, without a permit
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Thats real ? up.
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^^^^this.
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Government is the Frank White of all the usa
"a nickel bag gets sold in the park I WANT IN!!!" -
Lmao thats my city. Ive never heard this law
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We know what's up..
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I find crazy that one of the reasons the founding pillagers went to war with Britain was over taxes and fees designed to just ? you of your money and today it's pretty much the American way. Want YOUR money from an ATM? cool $3 fee. Wanna drive a car? cool pay for this license that will expire and when it do you gotta pay again for a picture of you. Oh and you buying a car? cool pay this sales tax when you buy it and when yo birthday roll around pay tax on it again for the value. Gotta job? get taxed on that income for a police force that will ? you before they "protect" you a school system that stay broke and pushes out uneducated kids ect ect ect tax tax tax
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country is turning to absolute ?
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Yesterdays conspiracy theory is todays accepted fact, ? been talking bout dat police state. That ? is slowly but surely coming to fruition. SMFH
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I find crazy that one of the reasons the founding pillagers went to war with Britain was over taxes and fees designed to just ? you of your money and today it's pretty much the American way. Want YOUR money from an ATM? cool $3 fee. Wanna drive a car? cool pay for this license that will expire and when it do you gotta pay again for a picture of you. Oh and you buying a car? cool pay this sales tax when you buy it and when yo birthday roll around pay tax on it again for the value. Gotta job? get taxed on that income for a police force that will ? you before they "protect" you a school system that stay broke and pushes out uneducated kids ect ect ect tax tax tax
Don't forget property tax that ? will ? you up as well. -
smh thats messed up. me n my unc used to shovel snow and ice all the time growing up for cash.
we'd go into retired neighborhoods n the old ppl would be happy as hell to pay u for that service
$15-$20 bucks per driveway 10-20 driveways a day..most of em would even tip.. easy legit money for a kid.
ppl are lame af these days callin cops on kids for shoveling snow that ? jus blows my mind -
Well if Eric Garner couldnt sell cigarettes untaxed why should they be able to shovel snow untaxed....
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All types of ? . I remember when the snow came down and school got cancelled. Packs of teams would be out there in the snow getting money. $10 a driveway * 7 or 8 driveways split 3 or 4 ways = we all eating good Chinese food that afternoon.
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This ain't no different than getting a few bucks for cutting grass, washing cars, chores or other side tree ? you see going on in neighborhoods. Cop, and/or whoever called them, just wanted to be an ? .
