Louisiana bureaucrats block social worker so she went around them

Submitted by Freedomman on Sun, 06/21/2026 - 10:32

Louisiana's Health Department told her she couldn’t work because her business wasn’t needed. How does the government know if a business is needed? The market should decide. Bureaucrats say blocking businesses like hers helps “limit the burden on regulators." That is absurd. “That’s just not a legitimate excuse that the government doesn’t have enough money to administer people’s constitutional rights.” says Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation. She’s helping Newell-Davis sue Louisiana. But it is not just Louisiana- - dozens of states have laws that force entrepreneurs to prove they are needed. In this video, I report on her fight, and the new way she found to help special needs children, without government interference. John Stossel reports.

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