Posted by
O on Sunday, August 24, 2008 1:34:41 AM
Apparently not even children are immune to the regulatory disease. An 11-year-old's organic veggie stand was too much for some Clayton, CA residents. From
ABC News:Municipal officials have shut down the [veggie] stand, saying that it violates zoning rules that prohibit commercial activities in a residential area. It also violates health regulations that say food can't be sold without a permit.
Most people would consider this stand insignificant but, since it's technically part of the market, and because markets are bad, the no-tolerance regulations in Clayton are perfectly acceptable. It would seem that even though the produce was organic (remember, pesticides are also bad), the justice of regulation trumps nutritional benefits and just being a kid. Two "good" policies that conflict with another "good" policy are hardly good at all. This sort of market intervention is a self-contradictory dogma which inevitably leads to these conundrums.
But we're dealing with socialists, so it's really no surprise.