Why do we have government-issued marriage licenses? Now that I have your attention, remember that you are not free to “practice” without a license. For example, you are not free to drive a car or to sell guns to the public without a government-issued license. At one time it was forbidden to have sex or to have kids without a marriage license.
Today the lack of a marriage license is not a barrier to sex or having or even being able to adopt a child. Today you can even get a marriage license to marry a same-sex partner. But rather than reexamine the reason for the licensing requirements to see if they still meet their objectives, a marriage license continues to be used as a barrier to receiving government benefits and special treatment. This is a good example of where we continue to have rules about something even after the underlying reasons are no longer enforced or even valid.
Are you still doing things in your business that no longer make sense to continue?
