Today I bumped into someone who knows a thing or two about liquor and wine sales in the state of Connecticut and a thing or two about how things work up at the capitol.
We got to talking about the renewed debate over whether state lawmakers should allow the sale of alcohol on Sundays to help address the budget deficit.
This person told me it has been suggested to Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell that, as an alternative, Connecticut allow supermarkets to sell wine along with the beer that they already stock.
I’ll look into this further Monday.
What? Will CT come into the 21st century?
Comment by billygoat — December 20th, 2009 @ 8:55 am
When are poliiticians and the majority of the general public going to realize that neither selling wine in grocery stores or allowing Sunday sales will raise sales tax revenue. The reason sales tax revenues are down in this state is a direct result of the economy and rate of unemployment. People do not have the money to spend and guess what folks, no spending means no sales tax revenue. Either of these moves will severly impact the state’s package stores, (small businesses that are the core of the economy, like it or not). Minimum pricing laws work to ensure large stores do not squeeze the small stores out of business, but adding more locations to sell wine will surely put small owners out of business thus letting employees go. So, not only will there be no increase in sales tax revenue, (unless everyone decides to drink more) there will be a loss in income tax from yet more people being out of work and an increase in unemployment. Wake up people and realize what the problems are.
Comment by Common Sense — January 2nd, 2010 @ 2:10 pm