As far as I'm concerned, licencing is just another example of state sponsored, state approved and state promoted incompetence.
Tell me Natty, how many government programs - most of which were started under the guise of protecting the innocent - have worked? The vast majority of them have become bloated behemoths that exist to grow and perpetuate themselves, and sap money and freedom from the side they were intended to protect, and the side they intended to protect against.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
---Benjamin Franklin