[SeekAndFind]

Margaret Burden and Melony Armstrong.

The Institute for Justice filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi challenging Mississippi’s cosmetology laws on behalf of Melony Armstrong, an experienced Tupelo braider who wishes to teach her trade, as well as Christina Griffin and Margaret Burden, two aspiring braiders who want to learn from Armstrong.

Prompted by IJ’s lawsuit, the state legislature exempted braiders from the cosmetology regulations. Braiders are now simply required to pay a $25 registration fee with the Board of Health, post basic health and sanitation guidelines at their places of business, and complete a self-test on that information. Now, entrepreneurs like Armstrong, Griffin and Burden are free to pursue their dreams in the occupation of their choice.

[Gaffer]

Instead of ‘regulations,’ one could make the same argument for any number of politicians.

[Gen.Blather]

Practically every regulation you can think of is designed to protect those now in “the” business against those who would like to start a business. But there are other bars to entry, including large business registration “fees” insurance and bond requirements and minimum wage laws. (To name but a few.)

I asked my mom, 97, how they’d survived the depression and virtually everything her dad had done is not possible or feasible now where I live. The state and local governments, wage, unemployment and insurance requirements make that type of wide-ranging get-what-work-there-is type effort impossible.

I made six calls to plumbers in the yellow pages. The first five were out of business. When business dropped off, the floor level of taxes and requirements destroyed them. They couldn’t just go into survival mode. They had to lay off and pay unemployment and maintain bonding and insurance and pay “fees.” So, all gone now.

[PoloSec]

I am a radical when it comes a free market place, I would like to 90% of regulations and laws eliminated, personal responsibility should prevail, Caveat Emptor!

The free market has a built in method of dividing the good from the bad, although there will always be...the fool and his money are soon separated, just as the poor will always be among us.

[oh8eleven]

Christina Griffin and Margaret Burden, two aspiring braiders
Not to be confused with "aspiring rappers."