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.
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.
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.
Your dizzying logic is on par with the gun control laws.
Nothing like blaming the murder on the gun, rather than on the one pulling the trigger.
Pennsylvania requires you to purchase beer in either a 12 pack or case (I can't remember) - instead of singles or a six pack - I wonder how that is considered their way of cutting back on alcohol?
I was absolutely shocked that failed. Of course all those Gov employees voted against it, but they should have been sorely outnumbered by both the left that would assumedly want more access, and the right that want less gov and union involvement.
Because it lost by such a wide margin it leaves me only two possible conclusions. Either there are an awful lot of fundamental religious types hiding in those hills, or the Dem machine screwed up the memo on just how many absentee ballots needed to be fabricated.
How is that a conservative position on the matter?
What you are saying is that there’s some sort of connection between privitization and the spread of alcoholism.
Better question: Why should there be a monopoly on ANY thing legally sold in the state of Washington? Why is it the business of the taxpayers of the State of Washington to be selling alcohol at retail stores?
I don’t know what it is about the coasts. It’s like a sort of gangrene of the mind has set in on both coasts. California hires Brown back, and we keep Murray, even as the abyss yawns before us on the Pacific.