The Dangers of Bipartisanship
The media loves to talk about the joys of bipartisanship, but libertarians run for the hills whenever we hear that word. Because it means that true legislative suckage is probably on the way. The horrendous war on drugs is just one example.
Here is another -- freedom to buy alcohol where it is most convenient. Living in AZ, I have come to expect that I can buy some tequila at my grocery store, but apparently this is a very limited freedom in the US:
There are two reasons. First, this is where you get one of those left-right coalitions, with Republican social conservatives wanting to limit liquor availability and Democratic big government types wanting to keep sales to a small group that can be tightly regulated (and strip-mined for campaign donations), or even better, to state-run liquor stores. The second reason is that once any regulation is in place that restricts sales, the beneficiaries of those restrictions (e.g. liquor stores or unionized employees at state-run stores) fight any liberalization tooth and nail to protect their crony rents.
"That isn't impatience at all in my view. The problem however it that it
isn't a common enough situation to make the drive through liquor window
economically viable. The drive through window's economic viability and
there fore it's existence is dependent on people who are too impatient
to go in the store even on the most pleasant day"
Because no one
ever stops at KFC's drive-up to buy dinner to take home. I stop at the liquor store
drive-up when I already know what I want because it's CONVENIENT. Sometimes the
convenience is simply because Mike Rosen is discussing something I don't
want to miss, or it's the bottom of the Ninth, and the Rockies might
actually win. There are millions of people in Colorado who choose to use
the drive-up window at the liquor store. Drive-up windows succeed or
fail based on their CONVENIENCE.
A fine point! Thanks.
Interesting, but was it Republicans who banned it for Republican reasons? I know Connecticut and Massachusetts have arcane liquor laws as well, Jersey has all state run stores, and they are liberal nuts, but at one time these states were our "bible belt."
Could it really be religious reasoning that first got the laws passed, ages ago, and now you are projecting it on the GOP? Could it be that these religious laws are kept in place by liberal organizations, that now see benefits in them, like MADD?
State run liquor stores, and Sunday liquor bans, and such are not really a GOP platform, and you don't often, if ever, hear of GOP types running on the keep liquor restricted, platform. In fact when it comes up for vote, relative conservative areas, tend to vote for fewer restrictions. Arlington, TX, voted to allow liquor stores for the first time last year, as an example.
GOP types tend to be against "harder" drugs left and right, but they hold dear to their alcohol.
No, it's the revenue. They even appeal to community patriotism in their ads. As for the town, it's always been Republican, except the R is getting smaller and smaller, with more and more transplanted Minneapolis residents. The stores right on our borders do a booming business as they have stuff the muni stores don't carry, as well as being noticeably lower in price.