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> Why does having a DUI prohibit you from selling liquor? The US is still really puritanical about alcohol, particularly liquor. It's still illegal to distill
by theptip 3y ago
> Why does having a DUI prohibit you from selling liquor?
The US is still really puritanical about alcohol, particularly liquor. It's still illegal to distill in many states, and craft distilleries have to bring per-state campaigns to have it legalized. You only have to go back a few decades to find it illegal to brew craft beer in many states.
This is all commercial, it's completely illegal to home-distill AFAIK.
Basically, prohibition was never fully rolled back, and it has taken ages for the restrictions to gradually be removed. Particularly in more-religious areas, there's still a deep moral disapproval of alcohol, particularly hard alcohol.
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- ethbr1 3y agoAlso, more importantly: taxes. And in the South / Midwest: religion. As to taxes, alcohol licensing and sales bring in revenue, so state limitation increases the value of a license. As to religion, politicians can trumpet about how they're keeping vice limited in the area. PS: Example irony: the Tennessee town where Jack Daniels is made (Lynchburg) is in a dry county (Moore).
- theptip 3y agoAgreed, I think there is also some cynical protectionism, in that the big distributors and producers want to maintain their monopoly, and so they lobby against new craft producer licenses that would compete with them. An example is the Type 75 "brewpub" license in CA, which lets a brewery sell their beer on-premises. The distributors lobbied to smuggle in a requirement that a Type 75 has to have at least one beer on tap that is bought from a distributor and not brewed on-site. There's no defensible reason for this requirement, it's pure pork. Distributors just want to make it harder for brewpubs to enter the market and compete with them, and ensure they get a kickback from every brewpub that does open.