The Arkansas Project – news + views on politics + policy, The state Senate is considering a bill that would end the state’s burdensome licensing requirements for barbers. Predictably, the people who benefit from the current system are outraged. And, just as predictably, they justify this outrage not as being in their own self-interest, but as being in the interest of the public. Too bad this justification doesn’t survive scrutiny.
KATV interviewed a barber and the director of a barber school on their thoughts about SB 104, the legislation in questio.