Showing posts with label licensing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label licensing. Show all posts

VIDEO: John Stossel - Illegal Everything - Pt 2


Lobbyists pay politicians to regulate away their competition.

Anthony Gregory: The Indecency Of The FCC

Authorities overriding freedom of expression and speech. The Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in FCC v. Fox. In this important first amendment case, the Judges will determine whether to enact significant limitations to the Federal Communication Commission’s power to censor the airwaves. The proximate issue concerns FCC’s ... MORE

David Hogberg: Walter Williams For Christmas

His autobiography is a great American story.   "Racial discriminatory preferences do not explain all they are purported to explain" is the central theme in economist Walter Williams' new book, Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? That's not surprising to anyone familiar with Williams' work. However, it is somewhat puzzling given his background ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Economic Fairness

Who defines fairness? The most prevalent theme in President Barack Obama's Dec. 6 Osawatomie, Kan., speech was the need for greater "fairness." In fact, though the president never defined the term fair(ness), he used it 15 times. Explaining his new hero, Teddy Roosevelt, Obama said: "But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take ... MORE

VIDEO: Speaking Without Government Permission

VIDEO: David Mamet's Political Awakening


Playwright, essayist and screenwriter David Mamet joins John Stossel to explain how he escaped the left-wing Hollywood mindset. 

Rick Barrett: Feds Push For Licenses To Drive Tractors

Proposal will treat tractors like big rigs. Tim Strobel has been driving a tractor for 20 years, so he's a bit puzzled that federal officials are kicking around an idea that could ultimately force him - and anyone else operating farm machinery - to get a commercial driver's license. Yes, the same kind of license that interstate truckers must have to operate their rigs.  ... MORE

Warren Meyer: Why So Many Licenses?

2011 Milton Friedman Legacy for Freedom Essay. Milton Friedman was always a more-than-able educator about the dangers and internal contradictions of socialism. But he also recognized another danger to capitalism and freedom, from the most -- rather than least -- successful corners of the economy. He said: "With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to     ... MORE 

Rich Lowry: Government's War On Lemonade

Beware those conniving grade-school entrepreneurs. There’s no more poignant symbol of American childhood than the lemonade stand, evocative of long, lazy summer days and pie-in-the-sky entrepreneurial dreams.  It inevitably was a subject for a Norman Rockwell print, with a brassy kid confidently hawking cups for 5 cents each. If Rockwell were to update ... MORE

John Stossel: The Cancer Of Regulation

Politicians care about poor people. I know because they always say that. But then why do they make it so hard for the poor to escape poverty? Outside my office in New York City, I see yellow taxis. It's intuitive to think that government should license taxis to make sure they're safe and to limit their number. It's intuitive to believe that if anyone could just start picking up passengers, we'd have ... MORE