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My folks lived in Pennsylvania for 40 years. I’ve never seen a more dysfunctional system for selling alcohol anywhere in the nation. It is appalling the the liquor distributors have such a stranglehold on Harrisburg.
This kiosk program is sheer lunacy. Another perfect example of government stupidity at work.
Another example disproving Obama’s absolutely stupid statement about car companies not knowing how their markets behave and government knowing better (ie, that they shouldn’t make trucks and SUVs, but rather EVs).
Just how does the country manage to keep electing such rotten governments?
This sounds like something out of Scrappleface....or Atlas Shrugged.
Looks like he’s getting ready to barf into the meter. Wouldn’t take much to put one of those out of commission.
I’d take the risk of selling wine to winos any day over this sort of money wasting silliness. Even lefty Illinois, where Rats and RINOs are king, does it right, it’s all private here.
They forgot to get a stool sample as well!
From the article:What, not a full set of finger prints, a retina scan and urinalysis?
When they are working, the kiosks dispense a limited selection of wines at limited locations and times (not on Sunday, of course!) to customers who present ID, look into a camera monitored by a state employee, breathe into a blood-alcohol meter, and swipe a credit card.
Geez, who though anyone would buy anything from a machine like that. I never need a bottle of wine enough to go through that.
And the whole "breathe into a blood alcohol meter" thing? Ewwwww!
Today I learned that there are Orwellian wine vending machines.
Whodathunk that idea would fail?
They should outlaw all other liquor stores, ban the sale of all fruits and vegetables that might be used for fermentation, then erect a 30-ft. fence around the state to form a captive market.
I know it sounds like Gulag, but it's really Utopia...
If you purchase beer in a PA distributorship or beer store, you’re forced to purchase a full case (24 bottles) even if you don’t want that much beer. It makes no sense and, once again, distorts the relationship between buyer and seller. What’s the reason for this?
Getting carded is barely tolerable. This is insane.
The nanny state discovered the subtle way to power: regulate an intermediary with whom none have an argument and who will consent to anything to operate. Very effective; even going as far as a breathalyzer based wine vending machine only inspires neglect, not tea-tossing revolution.
Next: The government takes over restaurants and diners.
What about the liver function tests? What about the psych evaluation? Doesn't the State of Pennsylvania care about its subjects?
Wait till they start making the stuff! The mind shudders.
