Last week our friends at the Reason Foundation posted an article about occupational licensing in California. The post reveals that the Golden State leads the nation in two troubling areas: (1) the number of occupations requiring an individual to obtain a state license; and (2) the burdensome requirements to obtain those licenses. The author concludes that licensing in California is often “arbitrary, particularly onerous, and ultimately unnecessary.” As the article states — and as Pacific Legal Foundation argues in many of its Economic Liberty Project cases — criminalizing economic activity can violate individuals’ fundamental right to earn a living. And from a policy perspective, burdensome licensing regimes don’t equate to better service, they stifle entrepreneurship.