If only we could cure him of tax & spend disease.
Meanwhile, Massachusetts just dropped licensing of TV and radio technicians, incompetent work in which can result in electrocution. Duh!
Government should only issue licenses for a *very* limited subset of activities, because make no mistake, licenses are uniquely about control, only very secondarily about safety.
However, this being said, the *private* issue of licenses needs to be regulated by government, to prevent many of the abuses associated with it.
1) Limiting competition to drive up prices.
2) Using licenses to establish guilds only open to insiders.
3) Demanding organizational fees or dues in exchange for a licensed “right to work”. (Think unions).
4) Lack of quality control of the work of the licensed.
5) Interstate problems.
go and try to get a licence to be a taxi driver in detroit...
hundreds of thousands of dollars, to drive a person from point a to point b....