Ethics

Sandefur's Latest Lawsuit

By Ed Brayton

Sandefur sent along this interesting new case that the Pacific Legal Foundation is filing in federal court in Oregon. The state of Oregon has a law requiring all moving companies to be licensed by the state, but the law allows all existing companies to protest the granting of new licenses. No surprise, the existing companies protest every new license because they don't want the competition and, also no surprise, the state hasn't licensed any new companies in the last two years. Now I'm not one of those libertarians who thinks all economic regulation is bad. There are some things the market just does not control for, in my view. But economic regulation that prevents competition and raises the cost to consumers is simply insane. Since when is it the government's job to inflate the price of goods and services?

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).