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At a recent meeting of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators (NCSLA) a lively debate over H.R. 5034, the bill that would allow states to pass any discriminatory or protectionist laws and regulations regarding alcohol sales and distribution without concern of court challenges. At that debate, wholesaler supporters complained that opponents of the bill have done nothing to suggest changes to the bill that would make it more passable: "The people who oppose this legislation may have ideas to…
In criticizing the Obama administration General Stanley McChrystal made a fundamental mistake that is too often perpetrated in our society: He mistook himself for a politicians when he is really just an administrator. The reason this is such an important mistake is because the fundamental role of an administrator is to carry out policy. The fundamental role of a politician is to make policy on behalf of the people. The key difference here is that a politician has a constituency,…
I am committed to the notion that, beyond a point, government and the society it represents does more harm than good in trying to overcome the seeming innate stupidity that always infects a certain portion of the community. It appears the United Kingdom is not with me on this one. There is a move in the United kingdom to reduce the legal blood alcohol limit a driver may possess to .02 and many believe this is a precursor to making…
Washington State finds itself in the midst of a campaign for reform that is extraordinarily rare. Initiative 1000 is a ballot initiative that would wholly transform the alcohol distribution system in that state to make it more open, more reliant on free market principles, less dependent on middlemen wholesalers and one of the first states to throw overboard nearly completely the three-tier system of alcohol distribution created in the 1930s. The primary results of passage of Initiative 1100 are: 1….
It appears that wine wholesalers have jumped the shark where H.R. 5034 is concerned. It has been two months since America's alcohol wholesalers have attempted to radically change the rules of alcohol regulation with their introduction of H.R. 5034, the bill that would overturn the 2005 Granholm v. Heald Supreme Court decision and allow state governments to pass discriminatory legislation, stop direct shipping and write laws that need not conform with any federal laws. Why the wholesalers would want the…
