Imagine how prosperous we could all be if we were freed of all those regulatory tie-downs. You have to have a license to corn-row hair, for pete's sake! You have to have licenses to cut hair and give pedicures, something as simple as that! The worst consequence of not being licensed? Nanny governmenters, HELLO????????? If you run a dirty place, you'll have dirty clientele. If you run a clean place, you'll have a clean clientele.
The beauty of the market is that it works best when it works in everyone's self-interest. Heavy and whimsical government regulation destroys dreams. You try to put a skyligt from Home Depot in your house and find out that the permit costs more than the skylight! For what? So how motivated is a homeowner to improve his house? Think of the many ways you could make money on the side and benefit whoever your clients would be -- if you could do it above-board. But you don't do it because you have to have too many permits and pay too many fees and gawd help you if you get imployees -- major headache.
A lot of average Atlases are shrugging.
People do not understand that regulations are just a racket. They are a money maker for the government, that’s obvious, I think.
But, all regulation has the effect of protecting the bigger players in the industry being regulated. It keeps smaller competition out. It keeps entrepreneurs out. It ultimately results in lower quality and/or higher prices for the consumer than would otherwise be found in a free market.
If you think there’s a free market in the USSA, you have another thing coming. Lots of people think the USSA is a free-market, capitalist country. I’d argue that we have not had a free market for quite some time and that the USSA is a communist country.
The regulations of everything are a major part of that communist edifice.
But still, most Americans seem to think the regulations are there because the government cares and wants to protect them. Even a good amount of FReepers get weak in the knees when you start talking about getting rid of regulations altogether rather than the weak “regulatory reform”.