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« on: August 26, 2015, 06:14:46 AM »

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Thank God Democrats and lawyers are here to save the millions of lives lost each year in fitness related accidents.
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« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2015, 09:28:37 AM »

Who said this is about fitness related accidents? It looks to me like a reasonable way to make sure that not just anybody can hang up a shingle, call themselves a personal trainer, and collect money (indirectly) from the government.
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2015, 04:55:30 PM »

Who said this is about fitness related accidents? It looks to me like a reasonable way to make sure that not just anybody can hang up a shingle, call themselves a personal trainer, and collect money (indirectly) from the government.

The problem with these regulations is that they have the side effect (some would say main effect) of protecting incumbents by making it more difficult to enter the field, reducing competition and driving up prices for the consumer. Witness the cost of getting a taxi "medallion" in NYC, or purchasing a "lobster quota" in my home province.

Now in some fields this the high cost of the regulating a profession may be will worth the price (e.g. Medicine, Law, Engineering, Accountancy), but it is hardly a free lunch.
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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2015, 05:50:36 PM »

I don't disagree that those eventualities should be guarded against. Just that OP's characterization of the intent was baseless and wrong.
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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2015, 09:20:05 AM »

but before you start something like this, you should have to prove that people are getting screwed over, otherwise, what's the point?
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2015, 05:51:12 PM »
« Edited: August 27, 2015, 05:53:06 PM by Seinfeld »

but before you start something like this, you should have to prove that people are getting screwed over, otherwise, what's the point?

The point for liberals is to make money of course.

Tons of low-level jobs for idiots to be "personal trainer inspectors". A few high-level jobs for administrators and such.

Every bit of liberalism is a money making scheme using the force of the state.

It is successful precisely because of this, it constantly provides nonsense jobs for their allies and taxes and burdens those sectors of society who can make money on their own and thus don't need the state. Imagine the low-skill schlubs who will be hired to enforce these new fitness regulations.

It's nothing but jobs for the party faithful.

Really, a fit young person making money independently by helping another person get into shape is the whole antithesis of leftism. No need for any government intervention, two people meeting completely freely to each other's benefit, becoming more healthy and happy in the process.

Nope! Not without The Regulators you don't!
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