Establish governmentbacked barriers of entry into professions and fields based on the allegation that the general safety and welfare of the community is served and protected by them. The reality is that connected Interest Groups favor occupational licensing for its anticompetitive effects. The fees and restrictions instituted by occupational licensure prevent entrepreneurial innovators who often come from modest backgrounds and represent vulnerable groups from efficiently providing consumers with better goods and services. The onus of these laws falls disproportionately on minority communities who would benefit from the elimination of burdensome regulations and the expense of Economic Freedom and mobility. The Johnson Center for political economy recently did a study that was published in 2018 called the cause of occupational cost of occupational licensing in alabama. We have dan sutter with us today who is the executive director of the Johnson Center for political economy. Concludes t
Good afternoon. And the Vice President of the institute here at the Heritage Foundation. On behalf of the president welcome to the first principle townhall series. This past year our history and founding principles have the and questioned doubted and challenged and to restore our American Heritage and to fundamentally change it that during the time of crisis the Heritage Foundation has produced the first principle townhall Webinar Series to speak to this moment offering participants the educational tools to give children the honest understanding of our history and to help them appreciate americas political and cultural achievement. President reagan stated freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction and preserving liberties requires knowledge. We are delighted you are joining us for part two of the townhall series winning freedom where we will explain how exceptional the American Revolution was in World History and my it could easily have collapsed into tyranny by the
Just over an hour. Thanks senator lee, let me welcome the six witnesses whom i will introduce. Prior the joining live nation, partner with Mckenzie Company leaving west coast practice. The Company Originally launched as aggregator of resale ticket listings but operates as primary ticket outlet and secondary marketplace for sports teams and live event venues. Prior to founding this is a return trip for mr. Mickelson. He testified before the antitrust committee in february in 2009 of the hearing of the then pending merger of ticketmaster and live nation. At the time he warned of any competitive effects of the merger could have stating, quote, its my belief this merger is vertical integration on steroids, close quote. I look forward to hearing an update. Senior Vice President of the James Madison institute, jmi, tallahassee think tank focusing on free Market Economics in florida. His writings have been published. Catherine british serves as the american antitrust institutes Vice President
After 108 years without a world series title. The chicago cubs are on top of the baseball world. After a thrilling 10inning win over the cleveland indians. And as you can imagine cubs fans are thrilled. This is what it looked like in chicago pure joy from cubs fans who havent been able to celebrate a championship in their lifetime. Fans have been dancing in the streets. The celebrations started when former ray and world series mvp ben zobrist. Hit a goahead double in the 10th inning. The cubs won their first world series back in 1908 against the detroit tigers. Since then the team has had their fair share of losses, some say thanks to a curse. There was the collapse of the team in 1969, after spending 155days in first place. Then in 2003. The world series was in their grasp when the team found itself just five outs from the championship. Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached out and caught a foul ball behind the bullpe. They went on to lose that game. Going back even farther to 1945. When a m
Good evening counting down toto election night. Hillary clinton and donald trump are on their last Campaign Push through battleground states. It was also a busy day for poll workers. Just in Hillsborough County alone there are more than 300 precincts. Jana jones joins from one of the precincts. Reporter jen this precinct will open in less than 12 hours and for those who havent voted yet they will be able to vote in what many are the biggest election in american history. You may not compare voting to football, but the Hillsborough County supervisor of elections calls tomorrow a championship game. This is kind of equivalent to a super bowl quite frankly. Reporter for months and months Craig Latimer says hes prepared much like the two candidates. Weve trained 3100 poll workers so that when they come to vote they are going to be able to help them in a system. Weve deployed equipment to over 280 polling sites of early voting. Reporter early voters made history. In Hillsborough County more t