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I'm Caleb Brown.

If you're considering running a business out of your home,

be prepared for the long arm of the law to intervene and stop you,

or at least make your home office a more

expensive place to conduct business. Christina Sandifers executive vice president at the

Goldwater Institute at the State Policy Network annual meeting, we talked about home-based

businesses and some of the needless if well-meaning regulation that might just

snuff them out. A home-based business is really just that. It's somebody who chooses to work from home

rather than working out of a traditional office. And these days technology has made it so easy for people to work from home that they can be

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