This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, November 18th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

State lawmakers who want to protect liberty should look closely at how cities regulate all manner of

activities from home sharing and ride sharing to home-based businesses.

Christina Sandifers, Executive Vice President at the Goldwaterwater Institute we spoke in Colorado Springs

last month. So many of the people in the Liberty movement broadly speaking are really

focused on federal regulation.

Yeah.

There is a dramatically less focus on state regulation and not many people at all are really truly worried about city regulation and you wouldn't even

necessarily hear about it if they were because that's not super interesting outside of that

city.

But you seem to indicate that as we were preparing to talk here, that city

regulation broadly is getting worse?

It's getting a lot worse.

You know, it used to be that cities were ways to efficiently deliver services to people that

would be less efficient if the state had done that, water, things like that.

And now increasingly we see cities passing regulations

in addition to regulations that already exist

at the state level, expanding this local control at the

expense of individual liberty.

Okay, so where are the your lawmakers who stand up for free enterprise and

the ability to go out and earn an honest living in all

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