Action Update - Issue 99 : : May 8, 2007
The Preoccupation with Occupational Licensing
Are We Criminalizing Everyone?
Suggestions By Marc Levin
Regulating new occupations effectively
means creating more crimes because
the default general criminal penalty of
a Class A misdemeanor under Occupations
Code, §165.151 for violating any
rule under the Occupations Code is applicable.
In addition to expanding the scope of
criminal penalties, subjecting an occupation
to government regulation reduces
competition among providers,
often causing higher prices and lower
productivity. Consumer choice can also
be compromised because of standardization,
as demonstrated by the cases of African
hairbraiders denied cosmetology
licenses.
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 Political Prioritization
First things first.
By Michael Barone
Sometimes politicians get things upside down. They ignore problems that are plainly staring them in the face, while they focus on dangers that are at best speculative.
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FRENCH
LESSONS FOR CONSERVATIVES
by Michael Medved
The election of Nicolas Sarkozy represents good news for France, for America, and for the world.
It also offers needed encouragement for US conservatives who ought to feel energized, inspired and reassured by this decisive triumph.Most obviously, the Sarkozy election should help explode two cherished leftist myths about the current direction of world affairs – First, that all nations and all peoples feel deep visceral hatred for America and Americans and,Second, that a powerful tectonic shift in global politics is moving the whole world to the left.
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RECOMMENDED READING
- How Much Government Is Enough?
“Government is the great fiction, through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.” — Frederic Bastiat.
- Futile Care Debate: Prolonging Life, or Suffering?
To what lengths should doctors go to save a life near its inevitable end? Is it worth it if the body will end up trapped in some motionless prison? What if the patient is suffering?
- Are You PC? If So, Stop Reading Here
The goal, of course, is to brand us as boorish, insensitive, tone-deafracists if we use anything but this month's preferred euphemism
- John Stossel : School Choice Besieged
Attacks from powerful unions haven't dimmed
the passion of school-choice advocates. It's as if
they say to themselves, "You can call us names,
but we know what we are doing is morally
right.
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