Reading on a Sunday
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Here’s good news: President Trump is getting rid of a boatload of stupid regulations.
And here’s two I hope he throws at Paul Ryan: Metaphorically speaking of course:
From Freedom Manifesto by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames:
In the state of Texas, for example every new computer repair technician is required to purchase a private investigator’s license. That’s right. An individual must either have a degree in criminal justice or complete a three-year apprenticeship with a licensed private investigator. To make matters worse, you can violate this ridiculous law if you are simply a regular citizen who has a computer repaired by someone who doesn’t have a PI license. Violators can be fined up to $4,000 and put in jail for a year.
(Anybody in Texas know if this is true?)
Washington, D.C. regulations actually make it illegal to ‘describe…any place or point of interest in the District to any person on a tour without a license. Violators risk being arrested and thrown in jail for up to three months.
Which explains why, in the year 2000, I asked a National Guard soldier on the street of D.C., in front of the Treasury Building, how to get to Independence Hall, he replied in the toughest voice he could muster:
‘There IS no such hall!”
I feel so much better now. And here I thought he just wanted to shoot me.
