Newton Hunt wrote: > Plumber, electricians, commercial drivers and such are licensed > because what they do effects public health which is right and proper. > Piano work does not effect public health in an appreciable manner so > licensing such returns us the old days of Guilds controlling > everything about a workers life. Such ideas have repeatedly be > roundly defeated here in the US. I aggree that piano work has no health issue related to it. > > > The government that governs least is the best government. Get bogged > down with regulations and you have a situation where the cost of doing > the paperwork costs more than the profits from an activity. > I used to aggree, and things can go to far the other way as well, but I have changed through the years. So, for that matter is the US in general. I Washington state now they have defined any teenager who is caught smoking a cigarette as a criminal. The fine is about 100 dollars. Unthinkable a few years ago. But then we are back to health issues. Still, even in the US, things are changing. I aint saying its good.. its just going on. > > THink real hard about giving up your freedom of choice to a government > agency. I live in what most Americans would call a heavily overregulated society. I would have never had such opportunity, gratification, or for that matter freedom in the US. But then Norway is a special case. > > > The public WILL know about incompetents quickly enough. I tend to aggree with this point, personally. > > > Newton
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