There's plenty of practical experience backing this, from government control of liquor sales in Canadian provinces to the longtime monopoly certain European countries had over cigarettes.
The Kerala State Beverages Corporation, a state-owned monopoly that controls all liquor shops and wholesale booze sales to bars, is booming.
Saltis, not nearly the name these days that Capone is, only reached No. 9 on Chicago's public enemies list, despite controlling the liquor trade on the city's southwest side.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was the opposite of a socialist, but he put it this way: "Only as the profit motive is eliminated is there any hope of controlling the liquor traffic in the interest of a decent society".
It is prohibited by a Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board regulation.
Oct. 17, 2005 The writer is an administrative law judge, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
In Canada, a liquor control board in each province selects the wine to be sold.
In northern European countries liquor control has reflected concern for the prevention of alcoholism.
"The license is an anachronism, basically," said J. Mark Anderson, a deputy commissioner of the New York's liquor control authority.
He has a plan to privatise the 600 shops run by the state's liquor control board.
