Timothy Sandefur summarizes the latest attempt of establised businesses to oppress political outsiders. According to the article he cites, vendors caught selling a license are being treated as criminals because:
The illegal sales ... rob the county of tax money.... The vendors are in danger because they are often alone with a pocketful of cash, she said.
To protect vendors from thugs, we should arrest them. Better yet, let's throw the flower-pushers into prison, where they will be really safe.
There's an old saw that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. I say that a libertarian is someone who has been mugged by the state.
