Amazingly, 29 percent of all the workers in the country are laboring in a job that requires a government license in order for them to do whatever they are doing. Why is that? Are licensing laws protecting the public? Or are they impeding entry and raising the incomes of workers who don’t welcome competition from outsiders?
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John Goodmanis a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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