Posted on 06/17/2005 8:02:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Mirror check time. This is an example of the trade associations and the state revenuers performing a little ju-jutsu on the prohibition crowd - which tends to be right wing religious conservative as much as the mommy brigade.
oops - didn't get to your commment. Needless to say I endorse your point of view.
Driving another industry out of their state. Then watch the Dem politicians blame cheap third world labor, for the loss of jobs and opportunity.
Btw personally I think professional associations, trade associations and politicians involved in these type of scams should be tried and hanged under treason/grand theft laws.
Hold 'yer noses.
Do you like kitties? ;^)
Lol, that didn't take long! :-)
Which of course they couldn't literally do anymore. But why not do something like impose an annual per capita quantity limit on direct winery shipment sales.
No, it didn't, did it? LOL
People who make money from being intermediaries don't like disintermediation; people who make a lot of money from being a middleman will use that money to protect their position.
What are the morons in Lansing thinking? Even Florida, which bans the shipment of ALL alcohol through the mail, makes an exception for in-state wineries (that is if you really want to have Florida Blanc du Bois, probably the worst wine I have ever tasted).
So what would have been wrong with making the wineries distributors?
Yeah, just turn the switch on the vines to cherries, or avacados, or something....(/sarc)
"Nothing good has ever come out of Texas." -phlooburoo
I wouldn't say that.
Many fine women and good men have come from there.
And quite a few FReepers are from that fine state.
But then again, you were just here to stir up things before getting zotted.
So making points to you is pointless.
SCOTUS forced this to be "all or nothing" and Lansing chose nothing.
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