Nationally, the share of jobs requiring a government license has grown from about 5% in the 1950s to roughly 22% today, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The bigger question to consider, especially as technology advances, is whether we want to live in a surveillance state at all. Our civil liberties should not change just because technology evolves and law enforcement has new tools.
If school districts are concerned about consolidations and closures, they would be better off pressuring their local communities to make it easier to start and raise a family.
Clancy’s jurors are applying a Massachusetts rule that asks whether she could appreciate the wrongfulness of her conduct. Utah abandoned that question in 1983
