Read this and see if you can fathom why we're the ONLY county in the entire U.S. who actively (micro)manages the entire liquor trade. Ike Leggett at least lets it slip that booze means bucks - BIG bucks - for the county. They offer up some other feeble reasons like keeping the number of liquor stores at a minimum (this is a good thing?) and restricting sales to minors, but my sense is that the county is simply addicted to booze, in an economic sense.
So, rather than allowing market forces to decide the county's alcohol distribution, we force some citizens to become law breakers when they travel to other jurisdictions to find the beer, wine and other liquor that the MoCo doesn't or won't sell. Call me perplexed.
You are now free to discuss amongst yourselves.
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