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Thou shalt not drive thy golf cart into the cut after happy hour at BCs.

Thank God I don't have a dive master.
What just happened here?

Thou shalt not snitch on thy neighbors wife.

Thou shalt, at all times run up a big tab at Pedro's, and walk it.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house boy.

Thou shalt not partake of 151 and assume thou can dance.

Thou shalt not ask the police man if he knows who his parents are.

Ernie's 10 commandments. Good night

I read this comment from my Belize New feed:

[i]Well the owners appear to be pissed off and a number of readers wrote in stating the case for the Micro Brewery and the upshot is there are a lot more supporters for this than not. However if this couple had not gone and announced that they would do off-sales, and encourage people to buy and take their beer home with them. The Ambergris Daily wonders if they would have run into so much red tape, and been allowed to open.
The Ambergris Daily also wonders how easy it would be for two foreigners to go to the USA and open a micro brewery and what would the costs be. Our guess is that it would be impossible to open anything like this with liquor licenses, zoning, green cards ect., for under a 1,000,000usd.
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It absolutely would be possible from foreigners to open a microbrewery in the US for under 1 million USD. A foreign national can incorporate in the US and then apply for an E-2 visa, as long as the foreigner is a citizen of an investor treaty country. Opening a microbrewery can cost as little as between 300,000-500,000 for a small-scale place, depending on where in the country you opened it. In a metropolitan area, probably more then that, but in a small city or large town probably in that ballpark.