Oregon Man Fined $500 for Practicing Engineering Without a License

[dead0man]

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they do this sh**t all the time.  He's suing, not for money, but to get them to stop.

[Santander]

Big gubmint

[RI]

Generally speaking, engineers should be licensed if they're creating or designing things people rely on. This... is not that.

[Rjjr77]

This is an epidemic of overlicensing in the USA. We have far too many different licensing boards and requirements in states across this land.

[Associate Justice PiT]

This is an epidemic of overlicensing in the USA. We have far too many different licensing boards and requirements in states across this land.

     This is entirely true, and has a lot to do with the lack of faith in people to learn these skills in their due course. We have endless credentialing from colleges, followed by professional licensing because you can't suppose that they learned anything in college.

[Rjjr77]

This is an epidemic of overlicensing in the USA. We have far too many different licensing boards and requirements in states across this land.

     This is entirely true, and has a lot to do with the lack of faith in people to learn these skills in their due course. We have endless credentialing from colleges, followed by professional licensing because you can't suppose that they learned anything in college.

Agreed, and this should be a bipartisan issue to ease these restrictions on many careers (no barbers don't need continuing education, no estheticians don't need to take state mandated exams, the state of Louisiana shouldn't  have a Florists license, Nevada and Florida require interior decorators to have state licenses, Connecticut and Massachusetts require a state license to install a home theatre, Iowa has a travel agent license) it's apalling.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Hopefully the courts will start allowing more antitrust suits after the NC dental board case. These people in Oregon werent even performing work in exchange for money. Thats some bs.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This is an epidemic of overlicensing in the USA. We have far too many different licensing boards and requirements in states across this land.

     This is entirely true, and has a lot to do with the lack of faith in people to learn these skills in their due course. We have endless credentialing from colleges, followed by professional licensing because you can't suppose that they learned anything in college.

Agreed, and this should be a bipartisan issue to ease these restrictions on many careers (no barbers don't need continuing education, no estheticians don't need to take state mandated exams, the state of Louisiana shouldn't  have a Florists license, Nevada and Florida require interior decorators to have state licenses, Connecticut and Massachusetts require a state license to install a home theatre, Iowa has a travel agent license) it's apalling.

There are still travel agents?

[Rjjr77]

This is an epidemic of overlicensing in the USA. We have far too many different licensing boards and requirements in states across this land.

     This is entirely true, and has a lot to do with the lack of faith in people to learn these skills in their due course. We have endless credentialing from colleges, followed by professional licensing because you can't suppose that they learned anything in college.

Agreed, and this should be a bipartisan issue to ease these restrictions on many careers (no barbers don't need continuing education, no estheticians don't need to take state mandated exams, the state of Louisiana shouldn't  have a Florists license, Nevada and Florida require interior decorators to have state licenses, Connecticut and Massachusetts require a state license to install a home theatre, Iowa has a travel agent license) it's apalling.

There are still travel agents?

Sure, who books elderly cruises?

[Torie]

Isn't the problem here that he called himself an engineer when he was not licensed to be an engineer, as opposed to what he wrote or said?

[muon2]

This is an epidemic of overlicensing in the USA. We have far too many different licensing boards and requirements in states across this land.

     This is entirely true, and has a lot to do with the lack of faith in people to learn these skills in their due course. We have endless credentialing from colleges, followed by professional licensing because you can't suppose that they learned anything in college.

Agreed, and this should be a bipartisan issue to ease these restrictions on many careers (no barbers don't need continuing education, no estheticians don't need to take state mandated exams, the state of Louisiana shouldn't  have a Florists license, Nevada and Florida require interior decorators to have state licenses, Connecticut and Massachusetts require a state license to install a home theatre, Iowa has a travel agent license) it's apalling.

There are still travel agents?

My wife just led a high school group to Germany. Booking tickets for 22 required a travel agent.

To the underlying topic, most of these licensure laws are not driven by the government. The regulating agencies would rather not be given more professions to regulate. Most of these laws are driven by trade organizations representing the professions that seek licensure. They don't want competition from people they perceive as less qualified to do their jobs. They fear that their reputation can be tarnished if unlicensed individuals do poor work and give the profession a bad name.

[Higgs]

Over licensing is a cancer.

[Bismarck]

I'm not a Randite but this is an appropriate time to ask who is John Galt?

[Simfan34]

Isn't the problem here that he called himself an engineer when he was not licensed to be an engineer, as opposed to what he wrote or said?

Taken to its logical conclusion-- considering that he was fined for merely terming himself as an engineer as opposed to attempting to practice as one-- would it not also be an offense under this provision for any foreigner, if asked by immigration officials upon arriving in the country, to describe themselves as an "engineer"?