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 dont welcome competition from outsiders?
The Right to Work
Also published in Forbes Wed. September 17, 2014
John C. Goodman is 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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