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Pa. Liquor Control Board posts $114 million net loss in fiscal 2017
Philadelphia Inquirer via Philly.com ^ | September 28, 2017 — 7:51 PM EDT | Harold Brubaker

Posted on 10/01/2017 9:12:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai

After paying $216.7 million into the state’s general fund in the year ended June 30, more than twice the $100 million paid to help fund state operations the year before, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board had a bottom line loss of $114.3 million, according to the agency’s latest financial results.

Despite the strain from larger-than-usual payments to the state, the agency’s spokeswoman pointed out that its cash and short-term investments were only $66 million lower on June 30, despite the additional $117 million contributed to the state’s coffers.

The PLCB board told legislators that they are comfortable with a $185 million contribution in the current fiscal year. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; liberalagenda; liquorboard; liquorcontrol; paping; plcb
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1 posted on 10/01/2017 9:12:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Only government could lose money selling booze.

Reminds me of the whorehouse in Nevada they managed to run into bankruptcy.

L


2 posted on 10/01/2017 9:13:34 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Olog-hai

How the heck did they do that?


3 posted on 10/01/2017 9:14:30 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Olog-hai

It takes a special kind of corrupt incompetence to lose millions running a liquor monopoly. People should think of this any time they begin saying, “The government should ...”


4 posted on 10/01/2017 9:15:34 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: Nifster

Short-term investments?! WTH are those idiots doing with the money they collect?


5 posted on 10/01/2017 9:16:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Nifster

Drank up all the profits .... ur something


6 posted on 10/01/2017 9:16:51 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Olog-hai

Does PA own all the liquor stores?


7 posted on 10/01/2017 9:17:09 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: mewzilla
From August..

Update on Investigation of PLCB Officials Four companies to pay a total of $9.2 million in fines

From 2014...think I'm seeing a pattern here...

Gifts galore in PLCB ethics scandal, but punishment lacking, some say Violating the state’s ethics law will leave three former high-ranking officials with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board with diminished bank accounts and tarnished reputations. But some say that’s not enough to deter bad behavior in the future.

8 posted on 10/01/2017 9:20:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Lurker

“Only government could lose money selling booze.”

This. They have a monopoly controlling one of the most in demand products in human history, and they LOSE MONEY? HOW?


9 posted on 10/01/2017 9:20:18 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2
How does Venezuela go bankrupt when they literally are pumping money out of the ground 24/7? Government corruption
10 posted on 10/01/2017 9:23:03 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: Lurker

Hookers and Booze. OnlY the government could be so incompetent. He’ll they are so screwed up they could fall into a barrel full o’ titties and come outsucking on a pecker.


11 posted on 10/01/2017 9:28:59 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Olog-hai

I tried my best


12 posted on 10/01/2017 9:38:46 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Artemis Webb

Yes.


13 posted on 10/01/2017 9:43:46 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Tax-chick

” It takes a special kind of corrupt incompetence to lose millions running a liquor monopoly. People should think of this any time they begin saying, “The government should .”

Get the stinking government out of it. Let the mafia run the liquor business in Pennsylvania. Even with the skim they would make a profit for the state.


14 posted on 10/01/2017 9:43:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Bonemaker

Quite so. Think of any dysfunction in society. It will be made worse by putting government in charge.


15 posted on 10/01/2017 9:47:53 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("What comes after diversity is the grim uniformity of Islam." ~Mark Steyn)
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To: Bonemaker

I hope you’re being facetious about that false dilemma.


16 posted on 10/01/2017 9:49:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
What amendment grants any government the right to regulate any business, drug or otherwise?

We have surrendered our God given instinctual rights to self preservation to the learned men. Men so learned that they ignore the fact of their destination if they're not following Yashua.

17 posted on 10/01/2017 9:57:15 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: Olog-hai
let me get this straight, they have NO material costs, NO manufacturing costs, NO shipping costs and NO TAXES(since they are the tax) eating into their profits, and they still lost money???

only in America...

18 posted on 10/01/2017 10:05:51 AM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: Chode

Well, not only. But it does get reported in America, for the time being.


19 posted on 10/01/2017 10:12:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rawcatslyentist

I wouldn’t say “surrendered”. Out of public ignorance, they were surreptitiously stolen.


20 posted on 10/01/2017 10:13:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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