Saturday, October 30, 2010

No, you can only be a scoundrel. The law says so.

From Indiana:

Chapter 10. Liquor Dealers' Permits
IC 7.1-3-10-5
Sec. 5. A package liquor store's exclusive business shall be the selling of the following commodities only:
(1) Liquor in its original package.
(2) Beer in permissible containers, if the permittee has the proper permit.
(3) Wine in its original package.
(4) Bar supplies used in the preparation for consumption of alcoholic beverages and in their consumption.
(5) Tobacco products.
(6) Uncooled and uniced charged water, carbonated soda, ginger ale, mineral water, grenadine, and flavoring extracts.
(7) Printed materials.
(8) Lottery tickets as provided in IC 4-30-9.
(9) Cooled or uncooled nonalcoholic malt beverages.
(10) Flavored malt beverage in its original package.


The way I see it, this law is kind of ridiculous.  How is it that a liquor store can't branch out and advertise to it younger consumers?  Or maybe, a liquor store owner was trying to go clean, so he was phasing out his alcoholic beverages and selling more and more soft drinks and coloring books.  The other general stores and liquor stores noticed that this integrating innovator's profit was increase many-fold and decided that he shouldn't be allowed to make that much money.  Once they discovered that the source of his great wealth was the fact that he would lure kids in with his "child-themed" novelties while at the same time retaining his more mature products, they decided that this kind of double-dipping should be outlawed, and that such institutions should exist in complete separation from one another.  Therefore, the integrator's "taxable" income drastically decreased, and order was restored.  (However, he still sold his child novelties on the down-low.)

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