To be fair, the profits from the cookie sales help fund activities for the girls. I know that when we sold popcorn in the BSA, that money paid for a lot of activities. In the case of Boy Scouts, the unit makes about 30%. The active boys sell the most, and earn the most awards. Those awards are paid for by popcorn money. That helps disadvantaged kids, because we charged a pittance for membership in the unit. If I total up the money our units earned in the years I ran the popcorn cartel, our units netted just under $9k. That's a lot to work with, even if it is spread over a number of years.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
