Posted on 05/13/2016 12:24:25 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Occupational licensure is so damaging to the upward mobility of poor people and does so little to protect the public that even the Obama administration, with its reflexive pro-government inclinations, has criticized it. (See my February 2015 Forbes piece on that.)
Unnecessary and anti-competitive licensing rules have been repeatedly challenged in court, and often struck down as a violation of either state law or the U.S. Constitution. The Institute for Justice has been particularly effective in protecting the liberty of people who just want a chance to succeed on their own, by persuading courts to invalidate ridiculous licensing regulations.
A new case in Tennessee raises these issues. In Pritchard v. Board of Cosmetology, the plaintiff is Tammy Pritchard, a woman who would like to earn some additional money working in a hair salon owned by a friend. The salon specializes in African hair braiding and what she wants to do is shampoo customers’ hair.
But after doing that for a few months, Tammy heard from officials at the state Cosmetology Board, informing her that she could not continue washing hair because she lacks a governmental license to do so. Under Board of Cosmetology regulations, an individual “must complete not less than 300 hours of instruction on the theory and practice of shampooing” at an approved school. That instruction includes how to answer the phone, order products, information about the composition of shampoos, and on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s rules governing hair salons.
So there are one or more “theories” about shampooing? Good grief.
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100 hours apiece to complete the course.
“Lather, Rinse, Repeat”
And here I was doing repeat first.
She might get shampoo in a customers eyes without that 300 hours of training.
Obviously my lack of proper training is the reason my hair turned grey. Wish I had known this sooner!
We all understand licensing for certain tasks or businesses. But is it really needed in this case??
300,hours gives someone lots of experience before working on customers , but is that much time really needed to learn the skills???
How long did it take each of us to learn, as children, how to wash our hair????
Maybe if Bernie Sanders had taken this class he would have made a better impression and won the primaries.
Used to work in Tennessee. Under the surface, It’s about as corrupt as they come! “The Ford Family of Fine Legislative Crooks and Funeral Home Owners” are a prime example of the kind of corruption that is spread throughout the state.
My current wife doesn't perm her hair, but she does color it. That's my job as well.
Whenever my wife's friends commented on her hair color and she told them that I did it for her, they would ask her if I could color theirs. I told them that I would, but I could only do it if they were naked, as she is when I do it.
...and then the fight started ...
“Maybe if Bernie Sanders had taken this class he would have made a better impression and won the primaries.”
Now that’s funny! Can’t you just see Bernie with a “weave!” He’d make a first class wigger!
“How long did it take each of us to learn, as children, how to wash our hair????
I am not sure if I’ve spent 300 hours washing my own hair in my entire lifetime!
It’s 2 months, big deal. People whine too much. Hell, it’s probably somebody whining about their hair turning color that made them decide it needed a license in the first place.
The government, in its infinite greed, keeps poor people poor. A young black man working for me at $8/hr was given a lawnmower. He borrowed a trailer to go two miles on a country road to pick it up. He got stopped because one of the trailer brake lights was out. While stopped they wrote him up for a bald tire. Total bill was $112. He can present a receipt for a new tire, $75 and a mechanic’s affidavit for a light repair ($119/hr plus parts) and they will reduce the fine to $91. Since he doesn’t own the trailer he opted to pay the fine. That is 14 hours of his labor. I can’t tell you how annoyed this makes me. He leaves work once a week to sell his plasma, which is major income to him.
In Florida, they are very strict about speed violations. They changed the limits on several major roads to reduce them for short distances to 10 below the rest of the limits. They then hide out and nail people. They don’t issue warnings.
A friend listened to the story and concluded, it looks like they have a goal of making $100 per stop. I agree. It’s policing for profit.
Locally, we have a self funded city and county EPA. The have a bunch of rules that count as criminal arrests. The typical fine is $250 but they have an offender intervention program you can pay $1500 for that erases the criminal arrest.
The local building department staffed for the bubble and hasn’t laid anybody off. The manager of the self funded office told them go write fines or they’d be fired. A developer said it costs him about $3000 for every $50,000 of materials he uses. He just builds the fines into the price.
Only need 35-45 hours for a private pilot license.
This is the result of townships on up becoming corporations, whose goal is profits, instead of policemen working to keep the community safe. Come on people, wake up and take back YOUR responsibility!
There are some occupations for which licensure is justified - like being a doctor, a general contractor, a pilot and stuff of that sort where highly specialized knowledge and skills are needed to get the job done competently and safely.
But shampooing? In this case, its more related to keeping out potential competition than ensuring public safety. If you’re going to make it prohibitive to start a small business, why should people they work?
Its crazy.
I’m just waiting to see one of those articles “You have been rinsing your hair ‘ALL WRONG!”
One time I was about to get a perm and this black beotch shampooer scrubbed my head so hard ( with nails) I wanted to hit her. Being the stubborn beotch I am, I was determined to show no hurt. Big mistake. The perm burned like hell. I should have done something at the time but was not in the mood.
It is the exclusivity of the guilds problem that existed in the medieval feudal system that has come back with the progressive era....
Essentially all the statists don’t realize their ideology is nothing more than Neo-Feudalism.
Look at the “Bar” for lawyers, it is nothing more than a “guild monopoly” on lawyering.
If the Hair salon cartel had their way they would make it illegal to use shampoo in your own house.
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