Bottleneckers. William Mellor

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      © 2016 by William Mellor and Dick M. Carpenter II, PhD

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      FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

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      Names: Mellor, William H., author. | Carpenter, Dick M. (Dick Michael), author.

      Title: Bottleneckers: gaming the government for power and private profit / by William Mellor and Dick M. Carpenter II, PhD.

      Description: New York: Encounter Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016020839 (print) | LCCN 2016033220 (ebook) | ISBN 9781594039089 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Licenses—United States—History. | Trade regulation—United States—History. | Trade associations—United States—History.

      Classification: LCC HD3630.U6 M45 2016 (print) | LCC HD3630.U6 (ebook) | DDC 381.30973—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016020839

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      Dedication

      We dedicate this book to Institute for Justice clients who have courageously and successfully stood up to bottleneckers and, in doing so, paved the way for countless others to pursue an honest living.

      Bottlenecker (n): a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry into his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.

      Table of Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

       How Bottleneckers Got Their Name

CHAPTER 2

       Casket Cartels: Robbery without a Pistol

CHAPTER 3

       When Licenses Creep

CHAPTER 4

       Designed to Exclude: The Interior Design Cartel’s House of Lies

       CHAPTER 5

       To Speak Freely, Pee in This Cup

       CHAPTER 6

       The Regulatory Stone Age

       CHAPTER 7

       The Schnitzel King Is No More

       CHAPTER 8

       The Bottlenecking Vanguard

       Conclusion

       Acknowledgments

       Endnotes

       Index

       Introduction

      Some criminals begin at a young age.

      Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf of Bound Brook, New Jersey, tangled with the law at the age of eighteen.¹

      Nathan Duszynski of Holland, Michigan, was thirteen.²

      Madison Root of Portland, Oregon, was only eleven.³

      They are not unique. All across the country in recent years, teens, preteens, and children have had run-ins with police, health inspectors, security guards, and even zoning officials, all for the same crime. The circumstances have sometimes been so disgraceful that the stories made national news. In certain cases, community leaders have expressed outrage and even shame, while in other instances officials have noted the young ages of the offenders but concluded that the law had to be applied without prejudice.

      The young criminals were all guilty of . . . conducting business without a license.

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