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I-1183
Looks like it has passed.
Does this impact the way you'll be stocking your bar? Or your day-to-day life?
Does this impact the way you'll be stocking your bar? Or your day-to-day life?
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Re: I-1183
This will make stocking our home bar a lot easier for parties and random GTGs with friends. Kirkland Signature booze is pretty good (I've bought it in stores in CA), and pretty cheap.
I'm happy this passed, I love taking any control/power away from the WA ST Liquor Control board. IMO, they are a bunch of corrupted wanksters.
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Personally I was a little surprised by the amount Costco put into the election, but given the amount of paper ads that filled our mailbox (and the things they said) I came to understand /why/ they had to. I don't begrudge the money involved in the election, though it does make me a little sad it had to be that way.
Maybe the state can take the money they were paying the employees plus benefits and store costs and put it back into law enforcement and education.
There are many benefits that will come from I-1183 and we don't need to be enforcing prohibition era rules anymore.
Lastly, you know the tobacco cages Costco has for the stores that sell cigarettes? They will probably use that system for the alcohol purchases and hire some of those employees who are losing their jobs over this.
Seriously though, my venue doesn't allow hard-A so it has no impact on stocking the bar for our wedding. But I'm excited that I can now run to my favorite local supermarket and/or Costco and buy booze, since I have a bad habit of remembering to visit the liquor store after they are closed.
[QUOTE]It actually makes me sad that thousands of liquor store employees and the people who work to stock the stores are now out of jobs so we can get it a little cheaper and more conveniently. I voted no and I am not happy about the outcome. I didn't mind going to the liquor store. The fact that Costco put 22 million dollars into this makes me look at them in a much more negative light than before. <strong>This yes vote was bought by them and they did a good job doing it.</strong> There were plenty of reasons to vote no, <strong>but apparently convenience and saving a few dollars was the more appealing option</strong>. I would've spent the extra bucks for the booze, and I don't think people realize that the high WA State tax on the stuff is going to keep the cost high anyway.
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While I think there were certainly a good number of votes that were for this reason, I think that assuming that the majority of folks voted yes because of ad campaigns or because Costco 'bought' their vote is, well, presumptious. I know that I voted yes because of reading and researching last year before casting my vote. I didn't like the way the state ran (runs) things and that's why I voted yes last year. I still want the state out of the liquior business and that's why I voted yes again. While my yes vote gains a perk of more convenience, it was note the driving force behind it.
Politics is a trick subject and I think it becomes ugly when assumptions are made and cast out such as that. It's far better to engage in friendly discourse rather than just presume and be grumpy.
Sorry to be preachy.
Originally I had voted no on the bill. Why? Because I did the reading. Their numbers didn't add up. It didn't outline for me enough, HOW it was really going to help the government gain so much more from this change. They also didn't have many restrictions on who can sell.
This time, I voted yes. I read the bill and all the nitty gritty details. The money adds up MUCH better this time, and the restrictions make more sense this go around.
I'm glad it passed, but it won't affect us quite honestly.
We buy from the NEX which is a military store that allows lowest prices and no sale tax. win-win for us. lol
I definitely get the democrat view of keeping the gov't hold on alcohol, but I kinda feel like it's a double standard to have them have control of that but not cigs/tobacco. Logically speaking, it makes no sense and goes against our Capitalistic country. Emotionally, I definitely understand keeping a hold of the stuff.
(FTR I'm a total liberal.)
I lost a friend to driving on the wrong side of the road at 18 in 2 in the morning and at a rate of 125 mph. She is drunk and on drugs. It tore me up.