Bureaucrats in the Way

Is your business 'needed'?

Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is 'needed.'

Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn't proved her business was needed.

'Why does the state of Louisiana have the right to stop me from doing what I love?…