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Not in the public interest
Reasons why the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board should be abolished, and The Almighty Liquor Code completely overhauled and rewritten, to reflect over 80 years of change since Repeal.
Needed: passion for privatization
"...there was [in 1997] no overarching passion within the General Assembly, or in the public at large, for privatization. Unless and until there is a general hue and cry, it is very unlikely there will be a privatization initiative that succeeds." -- John E. Jones III, former PLCB chairman
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Not in the public interest
The Reasons
- #1: We're Adults
- #2: The Two-Headed Monster
- #3: Where's the Beer?
- #4: The 18% Emergency Tax
- #5: The Liquor Code Serves the PLCB, not us
- #6: The Pennsylvania Legislature
- #7: One Problem, Everyone's Problem
- #8: Too Much Information, Too Little Privacy
- #9: Can I get a Ruling?
- #10: Only 623 Stores for the Whole State
- #11: Harrisburg is a Black Hole (for paperwork)
- #12: Like They Care -- no consumer fairness focus
- #13: Who Needs 'Em? -- anyone can collect taxes
- #14: Control Isn't Working Worth a Damn
- #15: The Case Law is Stupid
- #16: Why Control Wine & Spirits?
Contributors
Love Letters to Harrisburg
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2014
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April
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- The truth of the day
- Why can't Johnny read or do math — Part 3
- Would Privatization Kill Children?
- I guess I'm on the official Enemies list
- The PLCB responds to the Smackdown.
- PLCB SMACKDOWN
- More fun with PLCB numbers
- Washington State is not equal to PA
- Privatization facts & figures
- 30 years of progress – You’re kidding right?
- Let's Kill Another Privatization Myth II
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April
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Other Sites of Interest
- Choose Responsibility -- reasons against the 21 LDA
- Divesting the PLCB: Reason.org explains how and why
- PLCB Customer Satisfaction Form
- PLCB issues -- 4-part series in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- PLCB list of beer brands currently registered in the state
- PLCB posts at the tleaves blog
- PLCB Product Search Page -- find PA booze here (I'm just trying to help the customer!)
- PLCB Users Group -- a non-official blog that does what the PLCB fails to do: tell you what's being discontinued, added/relisted, and put on clearance. What a concept!
- Repeal the Johnstown Flood Tax -- what more needs to be said?
- Seen Through a Glass -- Lew's full-service blog
- The Almighty Liquor Code -- Title 40 of PA law (searchable)
- The PLCB's website
- The Session Beer Project -- Lew's blog about 'session beers,' good beers at 4.5% ABV and under
If you've got your own reasons...
Send them to me. I'd love to hear from you, and take those ideas and blend them with mine. And if you're in favor of the continuing existence of the PLCB, well, send me that, too. If it makes sense, I'll publish; if it doesn't, I'll publish it also, but I may have to disagree with you.
7 comments:
Not as big a fan of partisan name-calling. Plenty of republicans and democrats are against privatization for all sorts of stupid reasons, and it's not like either party has a platform plank of state controlled liquor sales. This is a state issue, and both parties suck at it right now.
Kinda hafta disagree with you, Greg. Just look at the votes. Every single Democrat in the House voted against the privatization bill last year; no exceptions. There are Democratic legislators from districts that poll in favor of privatization that vote against it anyway. All but five Republicans voted for it. The Republican governor has made liquor privatization a major goal. That's looking pretty partisan to me.
But...the illustrations aren't partisan.
I wouldn't go with "plenty" of Republicans. We are pretty much talking about 5 of them in the Senate. However there is little to no excuse for Democrats to consistently vote against what the plurality if not the majority of their constituents want. The party of "Yes we can" is the party of "No you don't" in PA
Democrat Milton Schapp made a privatization proposal in 1975, but the Democratic Party was once conservative, while the Republican Party was once liberal, in a way...
Lew, tick tock, tick tock. Three more days wasted this week and only 3 days left in the legislature in May. I know you said there was PLENTY of time. June looks like the only possibility and the best pressure is the $500 mil budget deficit.
Given the crap plans Senator McIlhinney keeps putting forward? Not all bad, John. Rather have it right than right now. Remember: like you keep saying, we only have to win ONCE.
Hey John, no comment on the Washington math problem you have? I've been waiting oh so patiently.
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