Hey BSD PA residents, better stock up on your booze!

Actually didn't know there was a price freeze on liquor.

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What!!!

4.5% on a $20 bottle of wine and ONLY 3.5% on a $139 bottle of Dom!!! That’s isn’t fair! The rich get richer!

Its outragegous, egregious, UNfathomable. :)

"Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down."

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Eric Watters
Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Jan 12, 2012 9:36 AM EST reply actions

Why can't we privatize it already?

I know that this article presents this as a political issue, but I’m advocating it as a consumer, from a neutral political perspective.

The fact that I need to plan to go to a separate store for liquor, and another store for beer (if i need a case or a keg) in addition to getting everything else I need is just absurd. Not to mention that I have never experienced quality customer service at any of the Wine & Spirits shops near me, and the store in my home town only has a very limited selection of products. If you want anything that the PLCB doesn’t consider “basic”, you need to travel 25+ minutes or place an order through the store and wait over a week to get your order.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

by Succss With Honor Always on Jan 12, 2012 10:29 AM EST reply actions

Because the lobbyists for the union representing PLCB employees say it will create rampant alcoholism.

Unrepentant Joe Paterno Apologist®

by leeharvey418 on Jan 12, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions

actually because the state will lose a lot of money

and alcohol prices would climb more than they are now

(my dad retired from the PLCB in full disclosure lol)

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the Big Ten...or just lose the sweater vest.

by amandakt on Jan 13, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions

Can you please elaborate on this?

I’ve heard these arguments but they don’t make sense to me.

I can only see one or the other being true, not both. If it gets privatized, the state would lose the revenue generated from the stores. The increased competition would likely lower the price of liquor (hence why it’s cheaper to go out of state to get liquor than purchase in state if you live near a border). If they would impose a tax on the sale of liquor to make up for the lost revenue, then it would certainly increase the price of alcohol, but the state wouldn’t lose revenue.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

by Succss With Honor Always on Jan 13, 2012 11:20 AM EST up reply actions