Grocery wine bill dropped from final state budget
Grocery wine bill dropped from final state budget
Aug 6, 2010 6
For the second year in a row, a proposal that would have allowed grocery and other stores to sell wine was dropped from the final state budget.Opposition to the bill, which backers say would have raised $300 million for the state, came primarily from liquor store owners, who have a virtual monopoly on the market and claimed the plan would put many of them out of business. They also said it...
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