So you are saying hypothetically, if some fantastically rich and lucky person would to buy ALL liquor licenses in that state and decided to not sell alcohol, it could potentially become a dry state?
Financially it is a smart move to make no new licenses, but people going out to a bar or picking up a 12 of guiness shouldn't be regulated by people who treat these licenses like a ty cobb rookie baseball card. And, shame on the government for treating these licenses as such and not recognizing the 50% growth in population. But then again the government won't do anything unless someone petitions this and yells, kicks and screams loud enough.
To me it just seems like another case of the government taking away rights and priveledges of business owners as well as consumer.
Can anyone say prohibition '06?
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