A free market in booze
I’m starting a new political movement. It’s called “Prohibition is over, so give it up, you dorks!”Our goal is the privitization of liquor stores.
Sure, back when Prohibition was the status quo, it seemed like a good compromise. “OK, alcohol is legal, but you can only buy hard alcohol at state owned liquor stores.” I can easily see them doing the same thing now with marijuana—legalizing possession, but requiring you to buy it only from licensed locations or state-owned stores. But today, state liquor stores are just a strange historical artifact. I propose that we preserve one state liquor store in each state as a museum to Prohibition and its historical consequences, set up the rest to operate as private businesses, and allow others to compete with the newly-privatized liquor stores.
State liquor stores are an artifact of Washington, not of the nation.
Yeah, and about fourteen other states.
Many states with state-owned liquor stores extract the major portion of their police funds from these enterprises so I don’t think they are going away.
By the by, what inspired this post? Couldn’t get the Vodka you wanted because the state stores close early?