Yeah, what's a bad bridge here and there?..............
Posted on 12/27/2017 12:02:15 PM PST by reaganaut1
Millions of Americans are shut out of jobs they could do because of occupational licensing laws. They have the ability and desire, but can’t overcome the high cost of getting the governmental license that’s required before they can legally work in a job field.
Examples of this are legion. Here’s just one I came across recently in the state where I live, North Carolina. An immigrant, Jasna Bukvic-Bhayani is skilled in applying makeup, but she wants to open a school to teach others how to do that. When she announced in Facebook that she planned open a school for makeup artists, she was visited by the North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners and informed that she could not legally operate such a school without a license.
As we read in this Carolina Journal story, the requirements for a state license were “A mandatory esthetics curriculum, buying up to $10,000 in non-makeup-related equipment, and teaching more than 500 hours of non-makeup instruction.”
Jasna knows her craft very well and could improve her life by teaching it to people who see a future for themselves in this field. A pointless state law stands in her way, however. She, with the able assistance of the Institute for Justice, has filed suit against the Board of Cosmetic Art Examiners, seeking to have the state law declared invalid under the First Amendment.
That’s one case. How widespread is this problem of occupational licensing?
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Licensing is generally a use of government force by an industry to protect its feifdom. Raising the barrier of entry to keep out competition.
It is common practice for established professions to form associations to lobby legislatures to prevent or minimize competition.
Play the game for a few hundred years and you have thousands of “license” requirements...
We need immigrants to teach makeup classes? Who knew.
Yeah doctors and accountants and lawyers...............who needs a license?................
And history is rife with “licensed professionals” who still sought to Game the system for personal gain
Which is another Big Ass Reason why licensing is required
Forbes should “license” it’s “journ-o-lists” before giving them a forum
A few years back, here in Florida, there was a big debate in the state legislature over whether or not a cosmetologist’s license was necessary for a hair braiding..............it is................now.............
These limitations also pop-up in the hair-card arena.
Saw one story a while back (Detroit?) about some woman who was making a few bucks braiding other women’s hair, until the Department of Hair Regulation learned about her and told her she had to stop until she became a licensed hair-braider (at a rather large expense in time and money).
On the other hand, if I’m paying someone to fix my wiring or plumbing, I want a reasonable expectation that a variety of foreseeable misfortunes do not occur.
But it is never going away because it provides too many do-nothing bureaucrat jobs with nice pensions at the State level.
I’m surprised these ‘face painters’ at the fair and festival circuit aren’t required to have cosmetologist licenses............
Same here in Florida. Now it’s required..................
Requiring persons to demonstrate knowledge of, and skill in, the design, construction, operation and maintenance of our critical infrastructure and facilities, prior to performing these functions, is not only elitist, it's also racist and sexist...
Where lines are drawn is a part of this discussion.
I’m sure none of us want to have surgery performed on us by an unlicensed doctor.
On the other hand, few of us care if our hired help who clean our houses have a business license.
Then again, we might prefer a licensed electrician to do electrical work, based on an idea that we want someone who knows what the heck the are doing and has certain minimal qualifications to work on electrical lines.
It’s called, “I got mine and to hell with you getting yours”. Same as guilds and unions with keeping others out so what I have is more expensive.
I have no problem with minor license fees for health and safety... enough to cover a background check etc to ensure they are not criminals... and if the licensing is for a trade some sort of testing to ensure they are competent, but beyond that’s it’s basically just a protection racket
Modern-day guilds, plain and simple.
I’m a licensed veterinarian. The state however has minimal input in setting the standards, DVMs are the primary responsible party. The big bump is to pass the national boards and clinical competency exams. State boards are comparatively simple. I think there might be a reason to prove competency here. Personal claims are often insufficient. How do I know this; well, I have given a thousand examinations over the years and you would be surprised how many people claim to be experts, and yet, they cannot provide the correct answers to test questions. I would imagine most of the hard sciences have similar requirements to keep out those that cannot provide correct answers to simple questions.
Doctors: yes
Accountants: okay
Lawyers: screw them and the pony they rode in on. Lawyers are one of the few professions that needs to break more stuff the more of them there are just to remain employable.
... kinda like Sociologists.
Yeah, what's a bad bridge here and there?..............
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.