<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Sounds about right for the amount of possible harm each business could do.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all">
<div>Pete Hardie<br>--------<br>Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Jason van Gumster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason@handturkeystudios.com" target="_blank">jason@handturkeystudios.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Jay Lozier <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Many states and municipalities have "licensing" requirements for a<br>
> variety of businesses. Some can be justified but many are methods to<br>
> restrict entry in a field and generate money for the government<br>
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And often times, they're almost depressingly funny. I don't know if it's still<br>
the case, but there's a county where I used to live in Virginia that only<br>
required business licenses for two kinds of businesses: junk yards and fortune<br>
tellers. The licensing fee for running a junk yard was a mere $0.75 (yes,<br>
seventy-five cents). For fortune tellers, however, the fee was two orders of<br>
magnitude higher at $75.<br>
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