Two men, two takes on liquor store restrictions in Columbia County
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Tell the loser to leave our community, we don’t need 18 liquor stores for soon to be 200,000 people when so many are too young or too old to drink and for that matter so many are too smart to drink.
We need as many liquor stores as demand will support. The presence of a store doesn’t make people drink any more or any less.
The restraint of private enterprise should only occur for extremely good reasons. Let’s hear someone advance the reasoning for limiting the number of liquor stores in Columbia County. The marketplace will control the number of outlets without government interference.
I’ve always wondered what closeness to a church has to do with liquor store location….school yes church no.