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Offline Ptarmigan

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Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« on: January 11, 2012, 01:33:21 PM »
Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hizzoner_sauce_pan_n9AdFlKbp5yniOhUprFt0L

Fascist Mayor Bloomberg is at it again.  :mental:
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Re: Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 01:37:24 PM »
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Community “transformation” grants provided under President Obama’s health-care law would help bankroll the effort.
Thanks, Barry.

I wonder how many people this will put out of work.
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Re: Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2012, 01:50:20 PM »
Was he sober during that period of history class in school when they discussed Prohibition?
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Re: Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2012, 03:33:31 PM »
Reason 548,899 not to go to NYC.  The comments over there are furious. 

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Re: Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2012, 03:35:26 PM »
Sorry, but this doesn't pass the smell test.

It's a trial balloon. Nothing more.

NYC already taxes booze to the point that reducing sales of it would most likely shut down garbage collection, or car washes that wash the poop off of cop cars.
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Re: Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2012, 06:10:04 PM »
It's a trial balloon. Nothing more.

Its a trail baloon for NOW.
But like the cigarette bans it will come back again and again and again.

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Re: Mayor's plan to limit booze sales
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2012, 06:14:50 PM »
Sorry, but this doesn't pass the smell test.

It's a trial balloon. Nothing more.

NYC already taxes booze to the point that reducing sales of it would most likely shut down garbage collection, or car washes that wash the poop off of cop cars.

$7 for a pint of beer when Scoobs and I were in NYC.  Gotta love it.
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