The Rude Pundit: Fuck Everyone Involved in the "Little Girl Can't Sell Mistletoe" Story

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5. I don't get the outrage about the donation.

My kid's youth group at church has sales and dinners with free will donations. They make a boatload-far more by donation than they would by straight price. Example: a ham and bean supper might have sold $6.00 tickets. When I attend I put in a ten-for myself only. The jar is always packed to the top with fives, tens, twenties, some fifties and even a few hundreds. A dinner that sold tickets for a set amount might make $1000 while a free will donation will easily clear $3000.

And she should be expected to get a permit, same as anyone else. I'd be pretty pissed if I had paid my permit and membership and had harvested mistletoe to sell in a stall yet saw someone else do it without putting out all that money. She's paying for braces, someone else who is a legitimate member might be using that money for bills, for groceries, etc. When they have the fundraiser dinners someone from the health department has to come out, inspect and license us for one-time use. It's not free-you pay for the inspection and for the license but that's what you have to do in order to make some money.

This story is idiotic at best.