{"id":4621,"date":"2012-06-19T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2012-06-19T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:11:46","slug":"quirky-licensing-requirements-from-around-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/quirky-licensing-requirements-from-around-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Quirky Licensing Requirements From Around The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0818_QuirkyLicen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about the role that taxation plays in affecting business writes Matthew Yglesias. But what&#8217;s far more important is the licensing barriers that they face. Some examples of the odd requirements around the country include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In three states interior designers require 2,190 hours of training, and satisfactory marks on an exam. Interior designers in the other 47 states do just fine despite not having a licensing regime.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of training required to be a barber varies by state. In New York it&#8217;s 884 days. In New Jersey it&#8217;s 280. Yet the experience of getting your hair cut is the same in the two.<\/li>\n<li>In Oklahoma you have to be 21 years old to be a locksmith. In New Jersey you need a high school diploma. In Tennessee you need to pass two exams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a part of his plea for less stringent licensing requirements he notes that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Licensing regimes are often put into place by existing operators to make it difficult for newcomers to enter their field, thus reducing competition.<\/li>\n<li>Over time licensing requirements seem to increase.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the effect that licensing requirements have on business, which states do the best job of reducing them, why licensing isn&#8217;t always unreasonable, the cases where licensing plays an important role, why these rules seem random, and what states need to do, click <a href=\"http:\/\/hive.slate.com\/hive\/10-rules-starting-small-business\/article\/licensed-to-decorate\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/hive.slate.com\/hive\/10-rules-starting-small-business\/article\/licensed-to-decorate\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/05\/shout-it-from-the-rooftops-matt.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion about the role that taxation plays in affecting business writes Matthew Yglesias. But what&#8217;s far more important is the licensing barriers that they face. Some examples of the odd requirements around the country include: In three states interior designers require 2,190 hours of training, and satisfactory marks on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0818_QuirkyLicen1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4911,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}