Did you know that Pennsylvania is the biggest wholesale purchaser of alcohol products in the world? There's been a long-running debate whether a state government should be in the alcohol business. Every so often, the discussion comes to the forefront, as it has this week when the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published a four-part series on the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and the consequences of government-owned and regulated liquor sales. You can read the series at the newspaper's Web site.
What I'd like to draw your attention to is an editorial, "Liquor Control Board showing its age at 75," in today's edition of The (Delaware County) Daily Times.
The bottom line is that there's too much money to be made by the Political Class and its minions for the state to give up control of its liquor monopoly. Pennsylvania consumers and Pennsylvania taxpayers are the losers.
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