Well...they aren't. Nobody really believes that the "Consortium of Control States" is going to work; states just won't work together on booze sales. That puts a big hole in the total right off the bat. Using the 6.92% profit margin for the PLCB that has been bandied about by some legislators -- which is optimistic, at best -- the state would have to sell over $1.3 Billion in additional product — an increase of over 50% — in the next two years to hit the revenue goals in "modernization." In other words, they want to take more money from you in increased sales, fees, and higher prices.(We break it down for you here.) Not exactly how most people think of "control."
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| The only way the PLCB "makes" more money is by taking it from YOU
Tell your legislators that is it time they did something FOR the people, and not TO the people. Free us from 80 years of incompetence, mismanagement, graft, idiocy, nepotism, and political payback by making Pennsylvania normal again. Let the state regulate, not retail. Or as some genius on the PennLive site recently commented:
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Why is the State of Pennsylvania still involved in this process aside from cronyism and a glorified social welfare program. The irony of it all is that I could mildly understand if they had a firearms control board, which they do not and cite some erroneous public safety policy, but liquor? What exactly are they controlling? The free market or capitalism? Or are they making sure that special interest groups who donate to their campaigns and run beer distributorships are protected. I saw that they just passed a bill that would "allow" these beer distributorships to sell 12 packs of beer. lol This is what we are wasting our tax dollars on, what does State Senator Chuck Mcilhinney do all day long. This is his signature bill of his rather lackluster career. Thanks Chuck keep up the good work protecting the special interests who return the favor through political donations....
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