License lawmakers, not massage therapists
Indiana lawmakers should set up a bureaucracy to license themselves long before they set up a new one, at public expense, to license massage therapists. Hoosiers do not need the state's help distinguishing between legitimate massage therapists and prostitutes.
If public safety is the reason for licensing, as proponents claim, then lawmakers should be the first professionals to be licensed. Their incompetence profoundly affects the lives of more people than any other profession. Their negligence in making policy can wreak havoc in our lives. If licensing is such a good thing to keep standards high, let's license lawmakers first.
To be licensed and certified, lawmakers should be required to pass a litany of classes and tests, just as they require lawyers, doctors and realtors to do at considerable expense.
First and foremost, they should be tested on Indiana's constitution, which should be required reading even before they file their candidacies. Once elected, they should be required to cite constitutional authority for each of their legislative acts. If lawmakers read their constitutions, they'd realize how little authority they've actually been delegated, and how much they've just taken from the rest of us through plunder.
Lawmakers should also be required to pass ethics classes on the morality of taking property from some citizens to give to special interest groups. The classes might also help them find moral courage to resist voting for needless regulatory legislation just because of petty political peer pressure.
A simple economics class would show them that prosperity and wealth comes from having more individual liberty, not more government, which is largely parasitic and non-productive, just as a new massage therapy bureaucracy will be.
Lawmakers should also take control-issue classes, so that they don't just act out to fulfill their own prejudices when they vote to control other people's lives and to put others who merely offend them in jail. All incumbents should take Continuing Control-Issue classes.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, but our ganders should be licensed first.
(Co-written with Jon S. Zwayer)
If public safety is the reason for licensing, as proponents claim, then lawmakers should be the first professionals to be licensed. Their incompetence profoundly affects the lives of more people than any other profession. Their negligence in making policy can wreak havoc in our lives. If licensing is such a good thing to keep standards high, let's license lawmakers first.
To be licensed and certified, lawmakers should be required to pass a litany of classes and tests, just as they require lawyers, doctors and realtors to do at considerable expense.
First and foremost, they should be tested on Indiana's constitution, which should be required reading even before they file their candidacies. Once elected, they should be required to cite constitutional authority for each of their legislative acts. If lawmakers read their constitutions, they'd realize how little authority they've actually been delegated, and how much they've just taken from the rest of us through plunder.
Lawmakers should also be required to pass ethics classes on the morality of taking property from some citizens to give to special interest groups. The classes might also help them find moral courage to resist voting for needless regulatory legislation just because of petty political peer pressure.
A simple economics class would show them that prosperity and wealth comes from having more individual liberty, not more government, which is largely parasitic and non-productive, just as a new massage therapy bureaucracy will be.
Lawmakers should also take control-issue classes, so that they don't just act out to fulfill their own prejudices when they vote to control other people's lives and to put others who merely offend them in jail. All incumbents should take Continuing Control-Issue classes.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, but our ganders should be licensed first.
(Co-written with Jon S. Zwayer)
posted by Kurt St. Angelo at 9:22 PM
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