The author would like to thank Lee McGrath, an attorney and legislative counsel for the Institute for Justice, and Dr. Edward Timmons, an associate professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation at Saint Francis University, for their help in reviewing this study. He would also like to thank Jacob Weaver and Josh Paladino, research interns at the Mackinac Center, for their help collecting state and local licensing data.