The Anti-Dog-Eat-Dog Rule Is Alive And Well In Missouri
Thank goodness the fine people of Missouri are being protected from excessive competition among moving companies.
From the Pacific Legal Foundation:
…it’s illegal to run a moving company without getting a state license, but when you apply for a license, the Department of Transportation notifies the existing companies and gives them the chance to object. When they object, you’re required to go through an expensive, time-consuming hearing process to determine whether there’s a “public need” for a new moving company. Yet there’s no law or regulation that defines “need,” so the entire procedure becomes a roadblock in the way of hardworking people…
I already made one allusion to the anti-dog-eat-dog rule from Atlas Shrugged
Existing companies have banded together to protect themselves from new competition by instituting a process whereby new companies can only be started with their permission. Or, at least, only started after said competition runs a lengthy and expensive gauntlet of objections from existing companies.
It would seem to me that the true measure of “public need” for a new moving company, or any new company, should be whether or not that company can survive. Which is really a private matter between the owners and his/her creditors and investors.
When capitalism is illegal, people suffer.
Tags: anti-dog-eat-dog rule, atlas shrugged, capitalism, free trade, missouri, pacific legal foundation, protectionism
