January 29, 2009 3:46PM 

# The Freedom to Do Business 

By [Jason Kuznicki](https://www.cato.org/people/jason-kuznicki) 

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Cato author Tim Sandefur has a video on YouTube about a truly awful business regulation in Oregon, one that prevents anyone from starting a moving company without in effect the permission of the existing moving companies. As you can probably imagine, they aren’t eager to give it.

Sandefur and his employer, the Pacific Legal Foundation, are fighting the cartel:

Good for them.

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[Regulation](https://www.cato.org/regulatory-studies) 

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