| Michigan CapCon, where public health is just another anti-consumer bugaboo. According to MIRS News, Michigan Barber School Director Darryl Green called it “the craziest thing I've ever heard of" and "total irresponsibility." He also trotted out the usual “public health and safety” scare tactics that are the common refrain of licensure protectionists, summoning the specter of AIDS and Hepatitis C should freedom reign and consumers be allowed to use their own judgment.
It's all fun and games until the evil gubmint bureaucrat forcefed barbicide to the patrons of the unlicensed barber. Actually, they must be mad because apparently benevolent overlord Rick Michigan's regulatory hatchet squad bought the scare stories about public health and the potential of incompetent barbers burning customers by misusing caustic chemicals around their heads opted to not drop barbers from the list of occupations that will no longer have a state oversight board. Interestingly enough, although CapCon's permanent intern felt it was very important to quote Adam Smith in promoting this, his employer apparently missed entirely the bits and pieces of Wealth of Nations in which Smith argued that educating students at public expense and public effort was an imperative to creating opportunities for the down trodden and in general preventing the outbreak of bread riots. |
