Bars that serve poison do not last.
Nor do bartenders who do so.
If you cannot keep them dependent upon the State for their welfare, then you can keep them dependent upon the State for earning their own welfare. Force people to kneel before the power of Government one way or another - by direct dependence on handouts or by dependence for the "privilege" to earn their own.
Looks like one needs government permission even to go to the moon via drudge headline this morning
You should not need a license or permit to be in business, manufacture, grow food, marry, or many numerable other things.
We need “Regulatory Decapture” ... and with it an end to the oceans of fees.
I know of mobile homes veneered to look like houses that received certificates of occupation in a very remote, sparsely populated county that has made it illegal for owners of properties greater than 35 acres to camp on their own properties. Planning and building codes are useless and good for nothing but trouble in such counties. Property owners are robbed and sent on their way. Such regulations do absolutely no good for potential buyers, who hire private inspectors anyway.
Besides, the residential real estate market will continue to be ever more barren at least until all of us Baby Boomers are dead. There’s also the coming fuel problem, with oil production continuing to go down, and demand, up. Within five years, traffic will probably become much more scarce. The tourist-commuter paradigm is nearly over for good and all. And there goes this fake economy of recirculating debt.