It’s called scarcity and all bars/restaurants belong to the Montana Tavern Association and they successfully lobby the Legislature to ensure there are no new licenses...
Bozeman IS expensive other towns have $10,000 licenses however they are tied to the town and cannot be shifted.
Montana does NOT have a professional Legislature — it meets for 90 days every other year and the pay is LOW.
I guess that’s why we have more than one billion dollars in our trust fund and we operate our government in the black.
Do you know?