Philadelphia Municipal Crumbs Targeting Cupcakes AND Bloggers? WTF Philadelphia, The Squeakquel
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Seriously Mayor Nutter Butter Nuts and his merry band of municipal idiots have gone from taxing bloggers to pinching a cupcake truck like a bunch of crumbs...sorry, this is so silly it makes my head hurt.... Posted on Wed, Aug. 25, 2010
More on the blogging tax: Aaron Proctor
NYMAG.com:Philly Blog Tax Exceeds Most Blog Incomes
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politeia - amen to the above and ROTFLMAO 
And oh by the way...it made MSNBC,The Today Show and a whole slew of media outlets from coast to coast...way to go Filthadelphia!
updated 8/25/2010 4:10:05 PM ET
Inspectors confiscate Philadelphia cupcake truck
PHILADELPHIA — A kerfuffle over cupcakes in the City of Brotherly Love has dessert lovers sour on Philadelphia's confusing business regulations.The Department of Licenses and Inspections seized a converted mail truck on Tuesday that's used by a woman known as "the cupcake lady," who roves the city selling 400-500 cupcakes a day.
The city says she did not have a proper permit to be running her small vending operation in the University City neighborhood, near the University of Pennsylvania. But the cupcake lady, Kate Carrara, a 35-year-old former lawyer, says the rules are just too confusing.....Five days a week, she sell cupcakes downtown or nearby. She said she's tried to make sure she either has a permit or is outside of the zones where permits are needed.
But when she showed up in University City on Tuesday, Carrara said, city officials with badges were waiting for her. She thought she was just outside the zone where a permit was required, but the inspectors told her they had received complaints and that she wasn't allowed to operate there. They went through her cake-filled truck and promptly drove it to a lot.
Who complains abut cupcakes? Dang. All we get 'round here is the Suburban Lunch Truck idling for an hour or so each day....not so the guy can sell bad food on a very residential street, but so he can take a nap, smoke, and talk on his cell phone....LOL
I am inspired to another photoshop:
But wait...there is more. ANOTHER cupcake truck was confiscated begging the question of does the City of Philadelphia want to JUST STEAL CUPCAKES? Is the City of Brotherly Cupcake and Blogger Haters just trying to get free eats?
And oh yes, days after everyone else has weighed in the Philly Post talks about the Philadelphia Blogger Tax...hmmm, all those bloggers at Philly Post blog for a company in the city, so does that mean each and every one of those bloggers has to pay it??? And what's up with the word kerfuffle? It sure is getting a work out over blogger tax. Perhaps an adjective can be used now and again to spice it up? Like tumolt?
Is there cupcake chaos in Philadelphia?
The popular vending truck run by Kate Carrara, known as the "cupcake lady," needed to be confiscated because she had been warned where not to park and continued to break the rules, a top city official said Wednesday.
The cupcake lady's husband, Andy, said she did not intend to violate any regulations and would try to comply with city requirements.
In the meantime, the operator of another cupcake truck emerged Wednesday to complain that his truck was confiscated by the city two weeks ago....David Dilks, operator of the recently launched Call Me Cupcake truck, said he had his truck confiscated by L&I two weeks ago on Market Street near 19th Street in Center City.
"I thought, 'This is a joke. I'll go away. I'm sorry,' " Dilks recalled. L&I wasn't joking. He paid $200 to get his truck back the next day.
Dilks, 40, said he had since learned he cannot operate in Center City or University City. What is unclear to him are some of the boundaries, a complaint echoed by the Carraras.
Dilks said he asked a woman at L&I to define where he was allowed to operate. He was told it was up to him to figure it out, based on numerous pages of regulations.
"Other cities around the United States welcome cupcake trucks with open arms," Dilks said. "It's like [the city is] trying to stifle this thing."
Did you hear that the city of Philadelphia wants to tax bloggers?
....As I see it, the problem isn’t just that bloggers are being taxed. Income is income, and if you make money blogging it makes sense that you would have to pay taxes on it. The much bigger problem is that most bloggers don’t make very much money. Individual blogs tend to be hobbies, not profit centers. Even bloggers for hire don’t make that much. Online writing rates currently hover around $0.01 a word, compared to $1 or $2 a word at many print magazines. The Huffington Post, the runaway success story in the blogosphere, uses 6,000 unpaid bloggers (myself included) and has a paid editorial staff of only 88 people....
Is the City of Brotherly Cupcake and Blogger Haters just trying to get free eats?
I'm thinking maybe Mayor Nutter toked up a little too much and just has the munchies. That's totally understandable.
The corrupt head of PHA makes more than Rendell and Nutter combined - and Rendell just defended his pay.
Nutter's gotta tax and fine a lot to pay all those hefty municipal salaries, bonuses and pensions.
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