QUOTE (Draco18s @ Mar 27 2011, 12:46 PM)
What that says is that PA should run the liquor stores like a business. That is, the profit goes to the state, rather than putting a tax ON TOP OF the sale price and the profit vanishing into the ether.
('Cause I can tell you, liquor prices are unlikely to go down if the state privatizes the stores)
As I heard part of an interview this morning with Patrick Stapleton, the PLCB chairman, a few things:
1) PA does take in the profit and the taxes to the general fund, and sums to (IIRC) a little over $200,000,000 a year.
2) Bringing wine or liquor across the border from Delaware or New Jersey (any state, actually) is illegal and can cost you your car.
QUOTE (Sixgun_Sage @ Mar 27 2011, 01:02 PM)
My brother in law takes fragging orders to fill when he goes on the monthly booze run. I'm sure if he counted how much change he is keeping he'd actually come out ahead.
Until he gets stopped and law enforcement finds the wine and confiscates his car.
Article noting the illegality (author of this article was also in on the interview this morning).
Losing your car may be over the top, but it was a story was from Patrick Stapleton who said that on his first day as the chairman of the PLCB he got a call from a state legislator saying that two of his constituents had tried to come into the state with some wine and had to walk home.