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When I got off the boat, there was a sliced mango seller there. I don't know where she's from, but I'm guessing somewhere Central America. And as I passed her, I also passed this one man muttering under his breath about how a. she doesn't pay taxes and b. it's unbelievable that she's just selling those mangoes, if she was Puerto Rican the cops would shut her right down.
I'm not really sure where this guy got the idea that the cops treat unlicensed food vendors better if they're (probably) Central American than if they're Puerto Rican, but I'm sure that can't be right.
Also, yeah, this woman's not paying income tax, she doesn't have a permit to sell mangoes out of a granny cart. She also doesn't have child care! She's spending 10+ hours standing there with a 16lb baby on her back in a rebozo, I'm not gonna begrudge her a little tax evasion! It's not like she's printing her own money here.
Anyway, when I came home I saw the gaudy greeting card van for the first time since quarantine! Holiday creep seems to have affected him too - I'm sure when I was a kid we'd get a week of turkeys and pumpkins plastered all over the van, but now he appears to have gone straight to Santa and tinsel.
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I'm not really sure where this guy got the idea that the cops treat unlicensed food vendors better if they're (probably) Central American than if they're Puerto Rican, but I'm sure that can't be right.
Also, yeah, this woman's not paying income tax, she doesn't have a permit to sell mangoes out of a granny cart. She also doesn't have child care! She's spending 10+ hours standing there with a 16lb baby on her back in a rebozo, I'm not gonna begrudge her a little tax evasion! It's not like she's printing her own money here.
Anyway, when I came home I saw the gaudy greeting card van for the first time since quarantine! Holiday creep seems to have affected him too - I'm sure when I was a kid we'd get a week of turkeys and pumpkins plastered all over the van, but now he appears to have gone straight to Santa and tinsel.
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