Free All of the Joe the Plumbers

My October 24 Washington Examiner column on Joe the Plumber and licensing laws as cartels:

Liberal bloggers and mainstream journalists have pegged it as scandalous or mock-worthy that Joe is engaging in unlicensed plumbing. Instead we should be asking why the City of Toledo, Ohio, or any city, county, or state, is justified telling its citizens whom they can or cannot hire to fix a leaky pipe.

You can read the whole column here.