Privatise liquor stores and you wont live to see your kids grow up

[Origanalist]

 

[CPUd]

 

[Origanalist]

And buying liquor has been sooooo much of a better experience ever since. Priced dropped (on many items, not all), and the selection expanded immensely. There is a huge liquor store in Bellevue that is the size of a warehouse with a entire isle devoted to just bourbon for instance and a whole monstrous section with a thousand different micro-brews etc. etc.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

It's for the children!!!

(The government/Union monopoly on distribution of this product).

 

[Origanalist]

It's for the children!!!

(The government/Union monopoly on distribution of this product).

Isn't it always?

 

[ClydeCoulter]

I know, right? Here in Indiana where it's privatized, our population is dropping something fierce, all the parents and teen kids dying and shit.

edit: I know guys who died before their great grand kids were in high school, all because beer was cheaper at the privatized liquor store.


edit: oh, and /sarc

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geHLdg_VNww

 

[bunklocoempire]

Hawaii has none? What am I missing here..

DEPARTMENT OF LIQUOR CONTROL
East Hawai‘i: Hilo Lagoon Center, 101 Aupuni Street, Suite 230, Hilo, HI 96720
(808) 961-8218 | Fax: (808) 961-8684
West Hawai‘i: 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Bldg B, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
(808) 323-4370 | Fax: (808) 327-3550
DIRECTOR: Gerald Takase
DESCRIPTION: A regulatory agency whose functions are to regulate the manufacture, importation, sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors and to ensure compliance to state and county laws through enforcement of these laws.
http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/liquor-control/

It's ALL "controlled" EVERYWHERE.

Love that tube. Damn those inanimate objects! Damn 'em all to hell!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Hawaii has none? What am I missing here..

Pitchers of beer?

 

[heavenlyboy34]

amazing how fallacious that ad is. Rather comical, really.

 

[Origanalist]

amazing how fallacious that ad is. Rather comical, really.

It will pull some boobus heartstrings.

 

[oyarde]

All alcohol tax should be repealed.No state would be interested once the cash cow was deflated.Fuck them. They get enough otherwise, if you cannot run a State without it, time to find new politicians to manage the till. Effing assholes.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

All alcohol tax should be repealed.No state would be interested once the cash cow was deflated.Fuck them. They get enough otherwise, if you cannot run a State without it, time to find new politicians to manage the till. Effing assholes.

Anything the state governments "need" can be paid for by donations.

 

[TheTexan]

If you privatize liquor ALL YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE IN FIRES

 

[CPUd]

Hawaii has none? What am I missing here..

DEPARTMENT OF LIQUOR CONTROL
East Hawai‘i: Hilo Lagoon Center, 101 Aupuni Street, Suite 230, Hilo, HI 96720
(808) 961-8218 | Fax: (808) 961-8684
West Hawai‘i: 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway, Bldg B, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
(808) 323-4370 | Fax: (808) 327-3550
DIRECTOR: Gerald Takase
DESCRIPTION: A regulatory agency whose functions are to regulate the manufacture, importation, sale and consumption of intoxicating liquors and to ensure compliance to state and county laws through enforcement of these laws.
http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/liquor-control/

It's ALL "controlled" EVERYWHERE.

Love that tube. Damn those inanimate objects! Damn 'em all to hell!

Every state has its own regulatory organization, but what the map is referring to are what people in the industry call 'control states'. In a state like TN, markets are divided into 4 areas corresponding to the major cities- Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga. For each brand, there can be only 1 wholesale distributor in each market. So there can be any number of distributors in a city, but only 1 of them sells Jim Beam. All of these wholesalers are private companies. What this does is create competition between the wholesalers for shelf space at the retailers. This is what keeps the prices down, and the variety high.

In a control state, there is only 1 wholesaler for the entire state, and that wholesaler is owned by the State. The smaller wineries/distilleries hate dealing with control states- they can't get them to place large orders, because the bulk of their business is with the big money, big brands. This means the consumer is probably going to buy house wines or liquor in a plastic bottle, because there is such a price gap between those and the real quality stuff.

 

[DamianTV]

Make tobacco illegal and the same could be said there as well.

 

[CPUd]

Some other rules for TN:

Your retail location cannot sell malt-based with wine/liquor. I know a guy who owns a large gas station; he wanted to sell liquor there too, so he had to put a wall with no door, add another door to the outside, and set up separate building addresses. You can sell mix (malt-based, low alc. content) and the rotgut stuff like Boone's Farm with beer.

There used to be a strict rule for supermarkets about not selling wine, some of the really large chains have been able to get exceptions, particularly around the holidays.

Your location must either be classified on-premise or off-premise. On-premise locations, like restaurants, can serve any kind of drink, but in cases where they bring you a container, they must open it before serving. You can't take it outside, except for outside dining areas.

You can't bring firearms into a bar. I don't know about restaurants or liquor stores.

In Louisiana, unless it's changed recently, 50 mL 'airplane' bottles are illegal. But you can go to a drive-thru and order a daquiri.

 

[tod evans]

Calling all DWI apologists...

 

[TruckinMike]

Make tobacco and/or coffee illegal and the same could be said there as well.

There fixed it for you...

 

[jkr]

MAKE
all the things
ILLEGAL
!!!!!!!!