We Have to Stimulate Something
First, from the department of childish humor:
I feel like Beavis and Butthead. Moving on.
Second, props to Obama for the "I won" comment.
Thrid, the Gov is flirting with the idea of raising taxes on wines. This got me thinking. California is currently about half a notch above "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God" crazy when it comes to the sale of booze. Two in the morning the law says, making last call somewhere around 1:30 to 1:45 if you're lucky. This leads to far too many people leaving fine establishments serving libations either sober, alone, or both. Here's my idea. Increase the time to sell alcohol til 4 AM, but only if the alcohol will be consumed on the premises (read: keep bars open late, but not liquor stores). The sales tax will satisfy state and local coffers. The increased size of the booze tax revenue will do the same. Surely this will stimulate the economy (among other things). AND the populace will drink its misery away. It'll be 1933 all over again.
Who could possibly oppose this? Well yeah them. But I think we can bone up this bill with stiffer DUI penalties (more $$$ for the state incidentally). At the very least, this is a better idea than the plan proposed by the Legislature. Their leadership has been far too flaccid.
“How can you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives?” Boehner asked. “How does that stimulate the economy?” Boehner said congressional Republicans are also concerned about the size of the package.
I feel like Beavis and Butthead. Moving on.
Second, props to Obama for the "I won" comment.
Thrid, the Gov is flirting with the idea of raising taxes on wines. This got me thinking. California is currently about half a notch above "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God" crazy when it comes to the sale of booze. Two in the morning the law says, making last call somewhere around 1:30 to 1:45 if you're lucky. This leads to far too many people leaving fine establishments serving libations either sober, alone, or both. Here's my idea. Increase the time to sell alcohol til 4 AM, but only if the alcohol will be consumed on the premises (read: keep bars open late, but not liquor stores). The sales tax will satisfy state and local coffers. The increased size of the booze tax revenue will do the same. Surely this will stimulate the economy (among other things). AND the populace will drink its misery away. It'll be 1933 all over again.
Who could possibly oppose this? Well yeah them. But I think we can bone up this bill with stiffer DUI penalties (more $$$ for the state incidentally). At the very least, this is a better idea than the plan proposed by the Legislature. Their leadership has been far too flaccid.
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 2:24 PM
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If you think California has tough liquor control laws, you have clearly never lived in a place that actually has tough liquor control laws.
Shortly after I moved to California, I called a buddy of mine in stunned disbelief:
"Dude, they sell booze here in the grocery stores! On Sundays!!! This is truly the land of plenty!"
The only places I know of where the liquor laws are more liberal, and booze taxes lower, are Nevada and Germany (but even there different states have different rules--Berlin is tops when it comes to boozing). I miss being able to buy tequila at Rite Aid on Sunday morning.
Every time someone says stimulus package, I giggle.
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