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Utah leaders want liquor laws a little less odd
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Could any laws concerning liquor, or any other unhealthy vices, be any 'Less Odd' than the hysterical laws and witch-hunt mentality against tobacco.
Strange.
How about the novel idea of scrapping the entire private club concept, move liquor sales from state stores to private ownership...or even consulting bar owners & patrons regarding changes before a bunch of non-drinking public officials start passing new laws and regulations?
Here's a couple of thoughts:
If liquor sales are an issue of moral depravity, why has the state regulated itself into a position as liquor's largest public purveyor?
If liquor is no longer considered an issue of public turpitude, why is the state still attempting to regulate and mirco-manage all liquor sales?
Instead of more laws and regulation, why not privitize liquor sales? Bars and liquor stores should be a matter of local city zoning. We're past prohibition. The state has recognized consumption should be a matter of personal chioce--so why continued state regulation?
I've always wanted to see Jay Leno and Celine Dion perform in Wendover, and try some of their mouth-watering prime rib they have in their fine dining establishments!
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