Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, has decided to build a 500,000 unit per year battery factory (Gigafactory) in Sparks, Nevada. This facility, desgned to be as large as nearly 200 football fields, will employ tens of thousands and contribute billions of dollars per year to the local economy. Destined to come online in 2017, the Gigafactory’s goal is… Read more »
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A Brief Primer on Constitutional Challenges to Occupational Licensing Laws
Over the last few decades occupational licensing has become the norm in America. It seems that just about every business one could think of requires a some type of license from the state. Even entry level businesses — such as selling lemonade or washing dogs– now require pages of applications and hundreds of dollars in… Read more »