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thenewgreen  ·  4148 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When What’s Costly is Cheap — and Vice Versa

I understood the statement to mean that the state takes things that would otherwise be free and adds barriers of entry to the use of them. I was looking for an example of this. I could have misunderstood the statement too.





cliffelam  ·  4148 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, well, professional licensing for most things is a state supported barrier to entry.

Do you really need "barbershop inspectors?"

I think you can have a good rousing discussion of private licensing (think Underwriter's Lab's) versus government licensing on most thing.

-XC