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> hair saloon cutters

You need a government-issued licence to cut hair in Florida?!

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Pretty much all states require a hairdresser's license.

How does the government determine whether something creative like hair dressing is at a good enough standard?

It's ostensibly about making sure you don't spread disease.

Edit: changed mostly to ostensibly, because of comments below.

It's not. In many states it's a 6-month program. A "don't spread disease" course could be done in 8 hours.

It's about making it harder for people to compete with the existing hair dressers. It's about forcing students into schools. It's about extracting rent from the economy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cosmetology-rules-show-ab_b_5...

https://reason.com/2016/08/03/do-you-have-a-license-to-braid...

Funny how the chair of the county GOP where I currently live belongs to a party, the GOP, that screams about too many regulations and government shouldn't be picking winners and losers yet he and his wife own and operate a salon school, which in our state is required to cut hair and consists of hundreds of hours to "graduate". The hypocrisy is sickening...

IDK, If he's voicing his support for licensing, or not doing anything about licenses, then yeah it's hypocrisy. But there are a _lot_ of regulations to take down, and this simply might not be high on his priority list. Should his wife be doing black-market hair styling?

Just because someone is compelled into an arrangement they speak against doesn't mean it's hypocrisy.

His wife isn't cutting hair, she's selling required snake oil "education" and debt to others. They say one thing, regulations are bad, but profit off of them. They don't need to be in the business... But it's profitable. They haven't and don't fight the regulation that profits them. They are modern day Pharisees.

And typically an order or two magnitude more hours of required training than to become a licensed police officer...

Consider the harsh chemicals involved in hair coloring and other such treatments. Not only do you have the risk of spreading disease to consider, but you must also be mindful of _serious_ chemical burns. It's anything but trivial.

In most places you need a business license to operate a business of any kind.

Then there's more industry-specific licenses based on what you're doing.

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