Comments on: Alcohol Regulation: Moral Issue or Economics Issue? http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/04/28/alcohol-regulation-moral-issue-or-economics-issue/ News and views on Utah public policy Thu, 23 May 2013 19:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Strider http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/04/28/alcohol-regulation-moral-issue-or-economics-issue/#comment-1034 Strider Wed, 11 May 2011 16:15:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=132#comment-1034 Rep. Wilcox has too much time on his hands. As an adult child of alcoholic parents, not one but both of them were alcoholics, I offer my opinion. I feel that the State should maintain control of the liquor stores, work with the Alcohol Beverage Board or whatever it is called, and sell spirits and alcohol to the public. The liquor store closing fiasco we suffered through is evidence that many legislators have too much time on their hands and their heads buried in the sand (or elsewhere). The system was working fine, turning a profit which was a benefit for the State.

I don’t like booze, do not use it and have no use for it. I also think that as the product is legal and adults may choose to use it the best we can do is control its distribution as we are doing. I realize the legislature has a mantra of privatizing everything in sight and then relishing the idea of regulating it to death they need to back off on this one. We could privatize the legislature into a board of ten to fifteen people who would meet quarterly and one annual session to prepare a budget and forgo the annual circus we now endure, but I digress.

Yes alcohol use, consumption and abuse is harmful, effects generations and so on. Unless we are willing to ban its sale and use (oh, we tried that already) the present state of affairs is OK by me.

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