Atlanta Strip Clubs: Free the Alcohol! (and save your budget?)
Posted on September 30th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs
In many American cities, budget crunches have whet local politicians’ appetites for larding up their ledgers with new taxes and fees on anything they can find—sin taxes on soda, cigarettes, tattoos and strippers.
But in a few places, local governments are finding that more freedom might just mean more cash for them, removing barriers to business might be a boon to local coffers.
The New York Times reports 12 states have raised alcohol taxes—boo!—but Georgia is taking a different tack by considering repealing outdated blue laws:
In November, voters in Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia will decide whether to repeal colonial-era laws that ban alcohol sales on Sunday.
Right now, Georgia (also Connecticut and Indiana) prohibits sale of any alcohol in a store on Sunday. In some sad cases, such as my college town, sales stopped on Saturday night, producing block-long lines of desperate college students at the gas station around 10 p.m.
See the full article from “Daily Caller”
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