This is the Kato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

As if most occupational licensing weren't bad enough,

appointees to the boards that regulate those professions

are often limited to a list provided by dominant players in the industry, and

that has effects that are more pernicious than you might initially think.

Daniel Do directs legal policy at the Pacific Legal Foundation.

We spoke in May.

There are a lot of occupations that are licensed.

We can argue about whether many of them maybe all of them should have a

government permission slip in order to operate within certain fields but to the

extent that we have licensing authorities within states who typically

staffs the licensing authority. Yeah in states across the country it's usually

the governor who appoints members of the licensing board.

That way they can carry out the governor's policy positions.

The governor is the chief executive of the state and so we want them to be able to

carry out their policy and be the head of the executive branch.

So he chooses people to sit on a board, but in order for a board to properly regulate,

I know like when people are critical of people who move directly out of like a federal regulatory agency and directly into industry or vice versa.

I always think, wow, that's not really fair. I mean, these people have expertise that would be helpful.

I'm moving both directions so you would expect that some people on a board

would be in that industry making determinations about who is

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