Occupational licensing in general is under attack. It's usually a gimmick supported by established members of an industry. Money talks.
My experience with the builders license process is that I feel like I was raped. I don't say that lightly.
They've got a system in place where just to survive legally, I needed the license. I couldn't pull permits or do any jobs worth over $600, which is nothing.
The first really troubling issue was that I had to learn a new way of speaking, the State way. And, not that I had to learn how to say "triple header" or the like, I had to learn the state sanctioned way of asking/answering their questions. My way of constructing sentences had to be "corrected" essentially.
Then, I had to learn another way of speaking because the idiot running the state sanctioned "school" communicated like, well, an idiot.
The language stuff was difficult because words represent thoughts. When controls are imposed on your language, it's a control on thought. In this case, I was forced to allow my language and thinking to conform to unintelligent people, which is psychologically painful. It's a psychological rape-- In this case, our mind is penetrated by others.
Ultimately, I had to sort of "make myself stupid" to understand them. It's sort of like I had to "blank out" and just sort of let the meaning of their words "flow" to me? I can't explain it exactly, but it was horrible.
The breadth of the information was ludicrous, maybe 75% of all study material was irrelevant, but there's no telling what's going to be on the test, so I had to retain it.
Speaking of what might be on the test, it's all state sanctioned facts. My grievance that ties for first with the "school" requirement is that these state sanctioned facts aren't publicized. If the pool of test questions is drawn from 1000 facts, why not publicize those facts? If 2000, why not? Rather than just publishing all the facts in a user-friendly fashion, the state advises that you read 1,000s and 1,000s of pages [[which I did).
The only rational conclusion that I can come to on their motive is that there is a conspiracy to oppress those who don't think like they do. I am a focused thinker, but they're different.
Anyway. . .
Interesting, short read:
http://www.michigancapitolconfidenti...-makeup-artist
Thorough investigation:
https://www.mackinac.org/archives/2017/s2017-02.pdf
From Obama's Council of Economic Advisers:
"While quality can be defined in many ways and is often difficult to measure, the evidence onlicensingÂ’s effects on prices is unequivocal: many studies find that more restrictive licensing laws lead to higher prices for consumers."
"While credibly estimating employment effects is difficult given available data, there is some evidence indicating that licensing directly restricts the supply of workers in licensed professions."
"As described in Section I, the effect of restricting entry to licensed occupations has proved easier to study in terms of wages: restrictions are expected to raise the wages of those who manage to enter licensed occupations, and lower the wages of other workers, leading to a wage gap."
Very thorough:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov...nonembargo.pdf