Charles Koch’s Network Plans to Take Aim at Job-Licensing Laws
11th December 2015
The political and policy empire tied to billionaire industrialist Charles Koch has begun what officials say will be a significant push to ease or dismantle state and local licensing rules that govern everything from hair-braiding to pet grooming.
Koch’s network is gearing up to work on the issue with an unlikely ally: President Obama.
Most licensing laws are artificial barriers to entry lobbied through legislatures by existing businesses to stifle competition, like taxi medallion laws and those relating to such things as hair-braiding. Until the advent of Uber, taxi compaies were the most adept at this scam.