Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 30, 2009

A license is a government-issued permit to do something you have a God-given right to do with your person or property. Business licenses create a cartel and provide revenue for government-employed parasites.

As the economic collapse deepens, an ever-greater number of honest, productive people desperate to make a living are offering unlicensed goods and services. At the same time, the government is arresting and otherwise harassing the productive by expanding enforcement of licensing regulations governing manual labor and local commerce.

Despite large-scale job losses in the productive sector, the State of Oregon has hired additional inspectors to fine unlicensed contractors the State of Oregon has hired additional inspectors to fine unlicensed contractors seeking to find work in the aftermath of the housing market?s collapse. Police in Florida have conducted stings to entrap unlicensed contractors. In Savannah, Georgia, police sprang a trap to arrest a delivery man working for an unlicensed biscuit restaurant.

Ridiculous as such measures appear, in desperate economic times this kind of harassment will eventually lead to bloodshed.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.