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Another "mythical right" I'm crying to have back! The right to work without giving the state a cut!
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Ah, yes! It's a great time to be a liberal!
Permission from the state!
"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near!"
permit 1 /v. pər-m-t; n. Show Spelled Pronunciation [v. per-mit; n. pur-mit, per-mit] Show IPA verb, -mit⋅ted, -mit⋅ting, noun Use permit in a Sentence
–verb (used with object) 1. to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
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to allow to be done or occur: The law does not permit the sale of such drugs.
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to tolerate; agree to: a law permitting Roman Catholicism in England.
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to afford opportunity for, or admit of: vents to permit the escape of gases.
–verb (used without object) 5. to grant permission; allow liberty to do something.
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to afford opportunity or possibility: Write when time permits.
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to allow or admit (usually fol. by of): statements that permit of no denial.
–noun 8. an authoritative or official certificate of permission; license: a fishing permit.
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a written order granting special permission to do something.
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permission.
Ok, I have labored to define “permit” so allow me to labor further to define how it is used and mis-used!
Now please allow me to link it to it’s mate: the word “license.”
license n. 1. a. Official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing. See Synonyms at permission. b. A document, plate, or tag that is issued as proof of official or legal permission: a driver's license. 2. Deviation from normal rules, practices, or methods in order to achieve a certain end or effect. 3. Latitude of action, especially in behavior or speech. See Synonyms at freedom. 4. a. Lack of due restraint; excessive freedom: "When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near" (Will Durant). b. Heedlessness for the precepts of proper behavior; licentiousness. tr.v. li·censed, li·cens·ing, li·cens·es 1. To give or yield permission to or for. 2. To grant a license to or for; authorize. See Synonyms at authorize.
[Middle English licence, from Old French, from Medieval Latin licentia, authorization, from Latin, freedom, from licns, licent-, present participle of licre, to be permitted.]
licens·a·ble adj. licens·er, licen·sor (-sn-sôr) n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
license Verb [-censing, -censed] 1. to grant a licence to or for 2. to give permission to or for licensable adj
Imagine for a moment this is still a free country! Chuckle! Considering this compilation that very well may be a stretch of the imagination!
Notice please the most common word in both; “permission.”
Now please consider Bob! Bob just turned 18 and he’s in a sweat to go to work at the plant as a wire puller. Sitting in a cable tray all day pulling various sizes of wire in, laying it in a line and tying it down. Basically, right now he’s just a labor hand and in no danger of wiring #14 wire to a 40 amp hot water heater.
The rub comes in when the state wants $25 for an “apprentice license” which “permits” him to be employed!
Can we possibly read that, the state will give him “permission” to work and make a living for $25!
Breaking this down to it’s truest form; the state wants a cut of his pay or he can’t work!
The “license” he carries is his “permit” to work!
Now let’s take this just a little further. Now since the Constitution allows the regulatory authority needed to provide for the public safety we can assume licenses are needed to ensure someone claiming to be a plumber isn’t installing lighting. However, this is a labor hand pulling wire! He could never pass as an electrician? Or could he? We’ll discuss this later.
Now, however, there is no real safety related need to force this young man to fork over a cut of his pay to the state other than the state wants the revenue!
Now this brings to light the situation in 2004 when this revenue scheme was first foisted on the working people of this state. There was an idea hatched to start the ball rolling on this with a huge revenue burst. Any electrical helper that could prove up on 5,000 hours as a helper only had to pay the licensing fee to get his permit to work as a Journeyman Electrician.
Now please! Sit back and think! How would you like that hand who’s spent five years up in various cable trays pulling wire to suddenly be elevated to journeyman by the state and now he’s wiring your hot tub?
So, because the state wanted the revenue from licensing every electrician in the state you now have a wire puller hooking up your hot tub! Tens of thousands of electricians in the state and which one spent his entire career pulling wire of installing conduit? And then, the state, in it’s blood lust for revenue says, “Hey, what about all those new helpers?” We can get a cut of their pay too!
And they did!
And what was the result? A “license” was created to “permit” (give permission to) a man to work in a trade or craft resulting in revenue for the state!
Hmmm! Shall we take this a step further? Every one of the very expensive tools this working man needs for his work he pays a sales tax on! He also pays both a federal and state tax on the gas he puts in his car to go to work. He pays a license fee for a registration sticker on the car he uses for work. He pays a sales tax on every piece of work clothes he wears to work! He also pays a sales tax on the burrito and coffee he gets at the Stop-n-Rob! He also pays…well, you see where I’m going with this!
Is this really a free country?
Yes, it must be a great time to be a liberal. Never having to actually answer a solid question! Booing those who do ask and never letting the truth of the matter get in the way!
On my next blog we’ll delve a little deeper into this license/permit thing!
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They charge to pull wire???
Only a nutcase would say this is sanity. A wire puller pulling cable from point a somewhere near a point to a point somewhere near a point is nothing more than a laborer. A strong back and weak mind is all that is essential. If you can prove this and learn from taking orders would you be anywhere near entering an apprenticship.
This is truly theft of and by the guvmint. Has nothing to do with electrical safety except not falling out of the pipe rack.
September 19, 2009 at 3:21 p.m.You are right on the mark, Kenneth. What should be professional licensing to ensure that certain workmen bring a minimal knowledge of their trade to the job has morphed into one more source of revenue for an always-hungry government. Now that the EPA, against all reason and rationality, has determined that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, I am waiting for the news that I will be required to have a Federal license to breathe.
September 19, 2009 at 11:46 a.m.I think we can all agree that government can and does provide some basic, generally accepted services. But when waste and abuse is evident, it is all our duty to speak loudly, as the speaker is familiar with the subject. You go Kenneth!
September 19, 2009 at 11:10 a.m.Regulating various credentials is a means in which the public is protected by communicating the skill level of a given craftsman. Snake oil salesman killed many an unsuspecting patient with promises the FDA would have caught early in the process. This protection is carried into every restaurant with a health certificate, building with an occupancy certificate, and weights and measure credential at the gas pump. This paranoid fear of Government is disingenuous as we place our lives in their hand every time we trust a green-light to clear an intersection. For those who cry for every penny of taxes spent they like a thirsty dog lick up the safety offered of a grand army, the freedom of a great highway system, and the comfort of knowing if they take ill a multi million dollar ambulance or helicopter maned with highly trained and publicly credentialed by government based on training from socialist, public schools will arrive to offer them the highest quality of care.
September 19, 2009 at 2 a.m.