Beer: Kegs, Not Regs
MSNBC has up an excellent survey of various state beer deregulation efforts. While deregulation here (as everywhere) is good for consumers, writer Lew Bryson notes that deregulation might harm the clever souls who fashioned their business practices to live just on the edge of many a stupid state law.
Some of those businesspeople worked hard within the system to bring Pennsylvania a variety of beer that is second to none. The six-pack-shop guys went deep in pocket for a more expensive bar license so they could sell us the single bottles we craved. The laws were ridiculous, and I’m glad to see them disappearing. But these guys were our beer comrades, they fought the revolution with us, and now we’re going to send them into exile, saying essentially, work harder or starve.
I’d feel worse, but I suspect they’re going to land on their feet. They were, after all, the men and women who were beating the hell out of the system already. The beer-store owner I talked to was one of them. “I’ll have to put in shelves, and I maybe won’t be able to carry as many beers,” he said. “But I’ll do it.”
More here. I grew up with these dandy alcohol regs, which are also slowly going the way of the dodo, even when good changes are shot down at the ballot box.
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