Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority
 
Board
Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board of Directors
 
chapter
Retail Operations [3 VAC 5 ‑ 50]
Action Clarifying and Simplifying Retailer Regulations
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 10/17/2008
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10/1/08  8:41 am
Commenter: A. Regular

All About The Benjamins!
 

This is another way for the state to get paid. The more laws that regulate things people like to do, are usually the laws that get broken ALOT. What I am trying to say is that if you make it illegal the people are going to want to do it even more. We see it all the time! This all comes down to making more money. If ABC wants more money why would you want to shut places down and bring in ZERO money? It seems that there could be more money made if these establishments could stay open and selling alcohol. Raise the cost of obtaining an ABC license. The laws should not affect the customers, they are not the ones selling the alcohol. The ABC would be contributing to joblessness and putting people on welfare and food stamps by revoking licenses and enforcing the proposed plans. The owners and employees of places that lose all customers close their doors and shut down. They lose customers because of new laws that are quite preposterous. ABC will then be responsible for losing peoples way of life and peoples livelyhood. Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean the rest of the state doesn't. If it offends certain people then those people need not frequent those types of places, and already don't. These are peoples businesses that are trying to be regulated to the extreme. It is almost as if the state doesn't want you to have your own business. What ever happened to free enterprise? A better way for ABC to make more money would be to keep the ABC stores open 24/7. In this terrible time of economic crisis I think the state needs all the extra money it can get, and by enforcing these new laws that would force many to close up shop and stop paying taxes to the state. Then the state raises our taxes to make up for it in the end. Nothing about the proposed legislation makes any kind of sense whatsoever. If you go to the beach or the pool or the lake you can see just as much exposed skin ,or even more, and you don't know who is drinking there. At least inside of a business you know who is drinking and can regulate that. We are born with no clothes on, that right there tells me we have a right to show some skin. Just in case I was not very clear, I am against these laws going into effect.

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