The only reason for requiring somebody to obtain a full-blown dentist’s license to set up a mall kiosk for whitening teeth is to keep out fair competition.
Unfortunately, state licensure boards have become the biggest perpetrator of monopolistic behavior today.
In the 114th Congress, Senators Mike Lee (R–UT) and Ben Sasse (R–NE) and Representatives Mark Meadows (R–NC) and Dave Brat (R–VA) introduced separate but identical bills that would have addressed the burgeoning problem of occupational licensing. Each one was labelled the Alternatives to Licensing that Lower Obstacles to Work Act but was also known by its far shorter acronym, the ALLOW Act.
In Horne v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires that the Government pay just compensa-tion when it takes personal property.