"Rediculous! If you are selling enough product that you would need a liscence, the price of the liscence is cheap. If you don't sell much, you are an amatuer and the law was not intended to stop the casual seller."
Not true. Simply having the money to pay for a license doesn't mean it will be granted. I can be very difficult to a liquor license in some areas.
As licensing laws make casual selling illegal, what is the basis for your statement that "the law intended to if not stop to the casual seller"?
"I will grant you this is true. However, most of the USA public thinks that this is a good thing. So while you and I might think otherwise, this is not really an issue since 80+% of the public agree with this position (in almost all parties)."
It's certainly an issue for the other 20%. Do believe anything the government does that a majority of people approve of "is not really an issue"?
Regarding this:
"yes we have restrictions on freedom and I would argue that this is for the good. For example my freedom to kill whoever I want because I don't like them has been restricted. I am also not allowed to rape, assault, sell drugs to minors. Hell- I am not even allowed to slander you even though I don't agree with your point of view. So while my freedoms have been restricted, I am actually happy about this."
which was in response to this:
"As listed above, the answer is YES! Just because it's not as bad in the US as it is in most other countries it doesn't mean there isn't any restrictions on liberty in the US as well."
Freedom and liberty are not the same thing. A person alone on an island has no restrictions on his freedoms and also has no need for liberty. Liberty is mutual freedom where all persons do not interfere with each others freedoms so long as their freedoms are also not interfered with. While the inability to rape without consequence is a restriction on your freedom, it is not a restriction on your liberty. The inability to buy whatever you want to injest is a restriction on your freedom and your liberty.
a) Yes. You can not start a business on numerous pieces of land even if you own them due to zoning. You can not open bar without a liquor license. You can not open a gun shop with the proper federal license. Your business can not get a bank account (the lake of which would make it very difficult to actually do business) without a Taxpayer Identification Number. This is just a sampling. There are numerous regulations of business at all levels of government. b) Yes. You can not sell numerous drugs without license. You can not sell some drugs even with a license. Also see above for other things you can not sell without a license. c) They won't stop you from quitting, but there are jobs you can not do without the proper certifications or licenses, such as lawyer, doctor, beautician, electrician, plumber, etc. d) Yes. I many places you can no longer protest anywhere near the people who you want to here your protest. Google for free speech zone. e) Yes. See above. f) Yes. You can not each regulated substances without a prescription and there are others that you can not eat at all.
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"Rediculous! If you are selling enough product that you would need a liscence, the price of the liscence is cheap. If you don't sell much, you are an amatuer and the law was not intended to stop the casual seller."
Not true. Simply having the money to pay for a license doesn't mean it will be granted. I can be very difficult to a liquor license in some areas.
As licensing laws make casual selling illegal, what is the basis for your statement that "the law intended to if not stop to the casual seller"?
"I will grant you this is true. However, most of the USA public thinks that this is a good thing. So while you and I might think otherwise, this is not really an issue since 80+% of the public agree with this position (in almost all parties)."
It's certainly an issue for the other 20%. Do believe anything the government does that a majority of people approve of "is not really an issue"?
Regarding this:
"yes we have restrictions on freedom and I would argue that this is for the good. For example my freedom to kill whoever I want because I don't like them has been restricted. I am also not allowed to rape, assault, sell drugs to minors. Hell- I am not even allowed to slander you even though I don't agree with your point of view. So while my freedoms have been restricted, I am actually happy about this."
which was in response to this:
"As listed above, the answer is YES! Just because it's not as bad in the US as it is in most other countries it doesn't mean there isn't any restrictions on liberty in the US as well."
Freedom and liberty are not the same thing. A person alone on an island has no restrictions on his freedoms and also has no need for liberty. Liberty is mutual freedom where all persons do not interfere with each others freedoms so long as their freedoms are also not interfered with. While the inability to rape without consequence is a restriction on your freedom, it is not a restriction on your liberty. The inability to buy whatever you want to injest is a restriction on your freedom and your liberty.
a) Yes. You can not start a business on numerous pieces of land even if you own them due to zoning. You can not open bar without a liquor license. You can not open a gun shop with the proper federal license. Your business can not get a bank account (the lake of which would make it very difficult to actually do business) without a Taxpayer Identification Number. This is just a sampling. There are numerous regulations of business at all levels of government.
b) Yes. You can not sell numerous drugs without license. You can not sell some drugs even with a license. Also see above for other things you can not sell without a license.
c) They won't stop you from quitting, but there are jobs you can not do without the proper certifications or licenses, such as lawyer, doctor, beautician, electrician, plumber, etc.
d) Yes. I many places you can no longer protest anywhere near the people who you want to here your protest. Google for free speech zone.
e) Yes. See above.
f) Yes. You can not each regulated substances without a prescription and there are others that you can not eat at all.