[politicalwit]

""It's wrong for the state to tell you you can or can't open a business," Free-Stater Dave Ridley said."

The State of NH didn't tell the man he couldn't open a business, just that a license was needed. I wonder if this idiot has ever heard of HIV or Hepatitis or how either of these disease processes can be transmitted via a manicure?

Let him spend time in jail. Perhaps he'll get "buffed and polished" by the other law breakers.

[Principium]

But what about all of those people who will be attending picnics this summer?! Sampling potentially deadly pathogen-laden foods made by strangers in unlicensed kitchens. The horror!

[fr_freak]

I wonder if this idiot has ever heard of HIV or Hepatitis or how either of these disease processes can be transmitted via a manicure?

What has that got to do with the state licensing his business? The proprietor paying a fee to the government to get a slip of paper makes the customer safe from fungi in the same way that having a police department in your town makes you invulnerable to crime. In other words, it doesn't.

In a free country, once word got out that a manicurist was giving people infections, customers would stop going and the business would go under. End of problem.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Yes yes yes. Why do so many people insist on no government intervention for anything?!