End Government Licensing
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=15763
“If we want a market with ample information, high-quality products, and freedom of competition, government licensing is an impediment that must be abolished across the board.”

It’s Time to End Occupational Licensure
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/blog/index.php/2012/05/its-time-to-end-occupational-licensure/
“The economic cost is incalculable. Licensure restricts the supply of workers in the occupations affected, stifling innovation and entrepreneurship, suppressing competition, and driving up prices.”
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How Big Government and Big Business Squeeze Entrepreneurs
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444184704577588872840133362.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
“Standing in their way are regulations imposed at the federal, state and local levels—regulations designed not to protect the public’s health and safety but to protect politically powerful private businesses from new competition.”
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You could not be more right, Tim.  I too yearn for the days of patent medicine—especially the “radium water” cures or the opium or laudanum “infant soothers.”

There is a reason for licenses and standards.  Before we had them, people died. 

End of discussion.