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The past seventy years have seen a substantial increase in the number of jobs and trades that require an occupational license to practice, creating onerous burdens on economic freedom. The lack of uniformity in the system of occupational regulation in the United States presents barriers to interstate mobility and infringes on people's freedoms. Organizations such as the Institute for Justice, Arkansa Center for Research in Economics, and the National Conference for State Legislatures have published reports and indexes that expose various problems arising from occupational regulation and propose ways to address the issue.

Marc Joffe recommends the consolidation of some municipalities, given the sharp decline in population that Puerto Rico has experienced, as a way to improve public services and reduce administrative costs.

The excess of federal aid that has come to the Island -associated with the recent natural calamities- has clouded the understanding of the true state of the Puerto Rican economy. The federal money has created a kind of hypnosis that has paralyzed us when it comes to the economic and fiscal reforms needed to achieve a healthy and dynamic economy.