Today our hero continues his barbershop deregulation jihad. We follow him, because it's funny:
The problem here is that when you set up these boards, they have incentives to think up any kind of halfway plausible reason to bar people from entering the field. Since being a felon sounds bad, and nobody but leftwing State Senators from Hyde Park wants to spend time standing up for the interests of ex-cons, making rules barring felons from your profession seems like an obvious move.And we simply point out that the occasional crummy regulation is not an argument against regulation itself. Do we really think the Illinois Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics and Nail Technology Board was trying to avoid the dreaded spectre of highly competitive barber-felons?
For a sound rebuttal of Yglesias's argument, we turn to this post, which lays out the importance of reforming government, not abolishing governance.
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Enjoying this, but what makes the ydiot worth your work?
ReplyDeleteSo long as Yglesias gets paid to publish his vapid and overprivileged glibertarian waffle, there needs to be someone out there pointing and laughing at him on a regular basis. Thank you, Ydiot Blogger(s), for taking on this thankless task. We can't let nonsense float around in the public discourse unchallenged.
ReplyDeleteYntern here, I think I can handle J's question.
ReplyDeleteThe money, the fame, the drugs, the many beautiful Ydiot groupies, the feeling I get when the entire crowd is watching me furiously wailing on my customized Fender Telecaster ...
I, on the other hand, am simply in it for the money.
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