The most current point to licensing is the great number of immigrant trades workers who are not trained correctly and never practiced good trade skills in Mexico, or wherever they arrived from.
The “industries” have profits to consider and immigrant trades people are cheaper.
Let’s take real estate, for instance, before all parties from realtors to appraisers were State licensed it was Customer Beware. Yeah, I don’t like having to spend hundreds every year on Continuing Education (which is often a partial waste of time) and State licensing, but otherwise if there was no regulation there are many who would never consider honesty or ethics in any deal. Because of the regulation and licensing, now both me and customers have some protection from shoddy crooks.
One of the primary functions of government is to protect its citizens, not just from foreign invaders, but from “snake oil” patent medicine peddlers and people that would cut every corner and build you a house or repair your car like in some 3rd world country.
Because of the regulation and licensing, now both me and customers have some protection from shoddy crooks.
hardly it’s been that way since the 60s and just getting worse - now a lady can’t even open a hair salon without having to get “licensed” and people have to watch if they babysit for their friends for a day if there are more than a certain #...to the point some states pretty much required union membership.
Yes - there is an issue recently from the immigrant influx - course they don’t follow the flippin’ rules in the first place - since most are here illegally in one form or another (no visa, expired visa, wrong visa). So how are we protected if they are doing things they aren’t supposed to anyway? We aren’t - we’re just punishing the people who follow the rules - which means the rules shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Regulation has exceeded it’s worth...it needs rolled back in a big way.