The good news is, as I wrote in my 2013 Carolina Cronyism report on occupational licensing: Lawmakers don’t face a Hobson’s Choice of either licensure or nothing.

Instead, as Lee McGrath of the Institute for Justice explains, there is a wide range of options available to policymakers interested in responding to legitimate concerns but not interested in destroying occupational freedom in the process.

It’s illustrated in this inverted pyramid. Find out more about it here.

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