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Cherry on Top

Charles Oliver | 4.13.2012 6:00 AM

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Juliett Pries wanted to open an ice cream store in San Francisco's Cole Valley neighborhood. She eventually succeeded. But Pries said it took her two years and tens of thousands of dollars just to get all of the permits and complete the paperwork required by the various bureaucracies she had to deal with.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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