*Before you get excited, this is satire.
The Government has announced that they will make freedom more free as soon as all the committees agree with each other on exactly how they’re going to do this, which is, pass a law to make permits to do things that we used to not need permits for, easier to get.
It looks like the idea of selling permits to buy permits is in the lead, with fee increases, of course, to pay for the extra time for clerks to approve, verify and file each Permit permit. We’re told that by buying a permit to apply for a permit, any sort of permit from one that lets us mow our lawns after 9 a.m. to one that lets us feed the pigeons in the park, will speed up the permitting process.
The first Permit will not be a specific permit to do anything, of course, except grant permission to apply for a permit. The fee for this Permit will be arrived at after the approval of the Permit Law, so as to quell the inevitable disagreements beforehand over the cost of it. Once a person has purchased a Permit for a permit, then the application process for the specific type of permit can proceed. Everyone agrees this will be faster than the old way, even though no one is old enough to remember exactly what the old way was.