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Which is not to say that Texas politics is free of anti-market folly.(The Week)(Brief article)
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May 04, 2009 |
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Which is not to say that Texas politics is free of anti-market folly. The interior designers' lobby has been on a decades-long campaign to require licenses for their profession--i.e., to organize themselves into a state-sanctioned cartel with the power to exclude competitors from the marketplace. A bill to police the menace of unregulated decorators has been introduced into the Texas legislature, as though the southern reaches of the Lone Star State were being ravaged by unfashionable floral wallpaper rather than Mexican narcotics syndicates. This effort ...
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