Comments about ‘Lawmakers question Utah's liquor license quota system’

Seriously, just do away with liquor all together. That would solve the licensing problem, DUIs, deaths caused by drunk drivers, drunken beatings of spouses and children, some liver diseases and other medical problems, hangovers, alcohol-related workdays missed, bad breath, obscene waste of grains to make the vile stuff, container waste, loss of jobs, wasted consumer dollars...the list is endless.

I'm not kidding. Think really hard about all the resources that are wasted and destruction done because of liquor.

The millions of pounds of wheat and other grains wasted on alcohol is sickening, let alone the dollars people shell out to buy it. Direct that money into something worthwhile.

Oh, please, you've created quite a list there. This is america, and I can direct my funds as I wish, even if I get bad breath from it. And I know a lot of other people who help line my pockets based on that idea, and I'd know a lot more if you got your way. If you're serious about knocking something that harms society you'd be after cigarettes, but that's never the case in utah because it's not really about bad breath or container waste, or even health, is it? Not in utah, it's not.

Oh please,

I'm pretty sure the US tried that once before. It was a HUGE success. So successful, in fact, that it was repealed.

If you ban alcohol all together What is going to stop the people from getting it just across state lines and bringing it back? This is just plain stupid to try and control peoples habits.Granted there's an alcohol problem in this country but you don't ban a legal product! Heck making homemade hooch isn't difficult at all.

End the quotas, and make the licenses as easy to get as a business license, or maybe even add some sort of "restaurant liquor" endorsement as part of the business license process with an additional fee.

Drunks will still be drunks and those who abstain will still not have to drink, and laws are in place to punish those who drive drunk or serve drunks, so nothing will change.

Say, do we have an official Utah state drink yet...? (Oh, caffeine free diet soda?)

At least with the restaurant licenses, everyone gets something. Greater restaurant choice can be enjoyed by both people who drink and those who don't.

And on and on we go.

We want government out of our lives, unless it is in an area where we want government control.

Wouldn't good solid conservatives want the free market to rule the number of liquor permits?