Jon Sanders, Author at The Locker Room

Jon Sanders studies regulatory policy, a veritable kudzu of invasive government and unintended consequences. As director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation, Jon gets into the weeds in all kinds of policy areas, including electricity, occupational licensing, hydraulic fracturing, the minimum wage, poverty and opportunity, state rulemaking, film and other incentives programs, certificates of need, and cronyism.

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Let cosmetologists make in-home visits while they’re out of work and we’re stuck at home

Allow in-home visits by licensed cosmetologists and barbers and let them set up home businesses. People want (and will increasingly need) their services, and as many shops are likely to close over the next few weeks, practitioners will need places to work.

Jon Sanders, April 3, 2020
New unemployment claims are over 300,000 — in two weeks

Lynn Minges, president and CEO of the North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association, estimated at a March 30 John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society event that around 75 percent of hotel and restaurant workers in North Carolina was now out of work. At 550,000 workers, that would put the estimated number of disemployed workers at 412,500.

Jon Sanders, April 1, 2020
How is tripling the price of eggs NOT ‘gouging’? WRAL’s Smart Shopper writes a smart piece

This is one of the best articles I've read in the local press on the subject. Smart job, Smart Shopper.

Jon Sanders, March 31, 2020
Raleigh restaurants, before and after the shutdown order

Here are several Raleigh establishments' Instagram notifications before and after the governor's shutdown order. Their communications to patrons and friends offer a snapshot of an extraordinary time. They offer a picture of the very difficult choices being faced by restaurant owners everywhere.

Jon Sanders, March 30, 2020
Gun stores, manufacturers, even shooting ranges added to DHS list of critical infrastructure

All the ambiguity and rigmarole over whether Wake County or Gov. Cooper were closing gun stores as nonessential businesses are now moot.

Jon Sanders, March 29, 2020
What rights? Wake County really, really wants to shut down guns and ammo sales

What is Wake County officials' problem with people being able to buy guns and ammunition "during a declared state of emergency even within one’s home 'where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute'"?

Jon Sanders, March 27, 2020
Will it have been worth it?

As of this morning, per Carrington's article in CJ, the Division of Employment Security had received 195,661 unemployment insurance claims from since March 16.

Jon Sanders, March 26, 2020
If there are essential businesses, gun stores have to be among them

It's best for a fundamental civil right not merely to be strongly implied in the law. Make it explicit and remove a lot of uncertainty

Jon Sanders, March 25, 2020

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Director of Regulatory Studies

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