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RE: TODAY in STUPID - Woman prosecuted for selling $12 of food on Facebook
All licensing is to protect vested interests, not the people. That's just the excuse they use to prevent competition against the larger companies who have lawyers and believe they could claim to your business because of it.
All licensing is controlling...
No one needs a driver's license to drive for example... Yet everyone thinks they do. Including people, Police, and DMV workers...
True. To some extent you need people to collude with you in order for it to work.
Totally correct! :(
I fear you may be right.
It may not be all licences, but I've sat in meetings where the town worthies voted on "safety" measures which they openly stated were really to keep people from harming their income stream by running small businesses out of their homes. In a memorable case it was women cutting hair for their neighbors. That was 30 years ago and all they wanted was a town license, now you have to have accredited training and a half a dozen licenses.
Wow. That is amazing that they would actually admit to it!
Yeah, it was like, "I have three beauty salons and some of my customers are going to their neighbors to get haircuts between visits to my shop for perms. We need to shut that down. Can we make some safety regulations?"
I would assume so, I attend a lot of City Hall meetings and I've heard similar, but often only hinted at, things all over, Certainly In Florida, as above, but also in Vermont (they love their regulations up there, and here in Kentucky. The guy who runs the Zoning board in Winchester owns three restaurants in that small town and shut down two requests for new diners in the town. "Too much traffic", code words for too much competition
Wow! I wonder if this sort of thing is happening everywhere and we just don't hear about it.