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.
Many local governments have their own occupational licensing laws or equivalent regulations. Structural licensing reform must take those into account as well.
Can the state accomplish a necessary, legitimate purpose used to justify a license while allowing more freedom and imposing fewer burdens on economic opportunity?
UNC faculty adopted a strong moral declaration that recognizes that freely expressing ideas is irrevocably linked to the university's ultimate mission to educate.
Basically, it would require the licensing agency to state what it intends to accomplish with the entry regulation, then attest that the regulation is the only way to accomplish it.
WRAL TechWire graciously gave the John Locke Foundation the opportunity to explain our position on government incentives, with the Triangle area in the running for Amazon's HQ2 or a new Apple campus.
Having established the what and the why of structural reform of occupational licensing, the Right to Earn a Living Act next turns its attention to how.
