Posted on 01/05/2011 10:17:20 AM PST by Kaslin
Washington State has government run liquor stores (hard liquor, beer and wine can be sold in grocery stores). Costco was behind an initiative this past November to privatize the liquor stores, and surprisingly enough it failed. I suspect that the various unions were backing their brothers and sisters employed by the Washington State Liquor Control Board.
While I am for the free market, I voted against the initiative; my reason?
As I told a guy gathering signatures on a petition last summer:
Washington State already has enough alcoholics, we don’t need any more.
Only buy your wine from the State... sounds familiar. Recall something about a country overseas putting rules on tea purchases....
Yeah, the state should control what people drink and what they eat! Pfft.
I just travel to where I usually buy groceries and get whatever I want. Screw you, PA liquor thugs.
In the former Soviet Union the state stores were always ALWAYS stocked with vodka. Drunken citizens are less of a threat to the regime, I guess.
In the state run liquor stores in Ohio, all the bottles were behind the counter. A price list was posted and you had to ask the employee to go and bring you what you wanted to the cash register. Big Brother really was watching what it was that you drank.
How does the state run store determine who is an alcoholic?
Your reason for voting as you did is akin to voting for state sold automobiles to reduce the number of speeders.
Clearly you haven't thought through your opinion on the matter very carefully.
The only government-run liquor store I will ever frequent is the Class VI at my local military installation. No tax!
Colonel, USAFR
how does the machine know whether the purchaser is old enough to buy the gunk?
PA has some of the craziest rules for buying alcohol. It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
Hehehe. Brother-in-law USAF. Know what you mean.
Your dizzying logic is on par with the gun control laws.
I used to live in Virginia and everybody would just hop in their cars and head to a liquor store in Washington, D.C. or Maryland.
Government has no business selling booze or restricting the sales of it. And I don’t even drink.
PA also has its share of alcoholics proving the effectiveness of such a system.
Contract the idiocy here to heavily Mormon Utah where you can walk into any 7-11 and walk out with a six-pack of your favorite brew as long as you are of legal age and have the money to pay for it. The locals may not approve of boozing, but they also have the good sense to realize the nanny state can't prevent it.
The article states that purchasers must swipe their driver's license first (the magnetic strip holds DOB info).
You could try reading the article.
And look into the camera where a real live person checks that you match your license photo. And blow into the built-in Breathalyzer.
Yeah, here in MA you can sometimes find a gas station that sells beer and wine. Any liquor store will sell six packs and up to cases, wind and hard stuff.
In PA to get cases you have to go to a distributor. I think six packs and such are only available at bars.
ouch! that hurts. but you never had a bootleg license with fake data? and there’s ONE guy watching all these machines remotely (if he’s even in the room at the time).
i wouldn’t want to be aroudn when the first person bypasses all these mechanical (i.e. subject to failure) safeguards don’t work and someone gets killed.
call me a luddite, i don’t mind;-)
ti just hit me. if you can’t use your driver’s licenses to vote because it discriminates against the poor, wtf?
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