"The single best anti-poverty program is a job.
So why does government at all levels make it so hard to get one?
In my home state of Tennessee, for example, it takes 300 hours of training to be licensed to shampoo hair.
That’s right: 300 hours.That training covers things like applying shampoo, rinsing and conditioning and answering the phone and taking appointments.
Shampoo hair without a license, and you can get six months in jail.
I think I could teach everything you need to know about shampooing in under an hour:
Don’t get it in people’s eyes, keep a sharp lookout for lice and rinse thoroughly when you’re done.
Answering the phone is something you can learn on your own.
But it gets worse.
It turns out that, according to a lawsuit filed by the Beacon Center of Tennessee, a libertarian public-interest group, you can’t even get the 300-hour curriculum because there isn’t anyplace in Tennessee that teaches the course that is required to obtain the license.
So to shampoo hair you have to get a full-scale cosmetologist license, which takes even longer and costs even more..."
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