You might have thought that the simple act of shampooing someone's hair might be too benign to warrant any intervention from the state, but unfortunately you'd be wrong.

Thanks to the extensive web of licensing regulation that has been weaved into place throughout the country, many people are prevented from trying to better their lives and from serving willing parties in their community.

It's estimated that licensing laws are keeping millions of jobs out of the market place and who knows how much better or cheaper a great deal of services might be, if these regulations weren't working so hard to keep so many people out.

If you're someone living in a place like California, then you'll need to make sure you've completed quite a few steps that will satisfy the authorities, before you can just go shampooing anyone who might be willing.

And those steps include paying fees and spending over 1,000 hours doing training; much of which has been deemed irrelevant, critics admit, to the everyday occupation. But that training could easily cost thousands of dollars, just to do someone's hair.

Would you believe it that if you're caught shampooing someone's hair for a charge without the proper state permission that it could mean time behind bars?

In Tennessee for example, you could spend up to 6 months behind bars and hefty fines, if caught shampooing without a license.

Clearly, this regulatory web prevents many people from trying to better their lives and attempt to make a living by serving people in his or her community.

It's also excluding competitors from entering into the market, which doesn't help to bring the best prices or products and services for consumers.

Safety or control?...

If someone shampoos or styles someone's hair and they don't do a good job of it, it's easy for the market to respond.

That client is unlikely to go back and support that business and also likely to tell many others about their negative experience, which likely prompt them to go looking elsewhere as well for service. It's very easy to share negative or positive reviews online today, to warn other potential customers that they might not get the hair-care service that they're looking for.

And the best thing about having a bad experience at the barber or salon? The hair can always grow back. It's absurd to think that someone might need to spend even one second of their life being harassed or locked in a cage because they voluntarily agreed with someone to shampoo their hair for them, in exchange for monetary compensation.

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Sources:
http://www.rstreet.org/op-ed/burdensome-licensing-law-turns-shampooers-into-criminals/
@doitvoluntarily/occupational-licensing-keeps-millions-of-jobs-out-of-the-market
https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2016/05/05/shampooing-hair-without-a-license-could-mean-jail-time-in-tennessee/#61397dbf6668
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/need-a-license-to-shampoo-hair-for-pay-michigan-says-yes
http://iwf.org/blog/2805754/Blow-Drying-without-a-License-Can-Carry-Jail-Time-in-Arizona

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