Crazy Blue Laws

Georgia and it's Crazy Blue Laws
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Only three state ban Sunday beer sales and I live in one of them.
Free men should have free choices.

The sounds of Sonny: On Sunday beer sales, on killing car taxes — and maybe on a transportation tax, too.

Gov. Sonny Perdue cut loose on members of the House on Thursday, for raising the issue of retail sales of Sunday beer and wine — and for a hefty tax cut that he called “irresponsible.”

A House committee on Wednesday took a bill to permit the Sunday sales of beer at the new minor league Braves stadium in Gwinnett, and attached language to permit local referendums on the Sunday sale of beer and wine in grocery and convenience stores.

Here’s where the governor explains why Sunday sales are a bad thing.

Perdue said the House action “jeopardizes” what he called an economic development matter for Gwinnett.

But there’s more. Listen to this clip.

Says the governor:

“We live in a republic, and the people of Georgia send us here to make decisions. I’m very concerned about a lot of the efforts I hear this year, about ‘Well, we’ll just let people vote on it.’ I mean, do we want to let the people vote to choose to allow prostitution and those kinds of things? Where are we going to draw the line?”

If you’re a supporter of the Legislature’s effort to create a sales tax for transportation — through regional referendums — that kind of thinking from the governor must give you pause.

As for the ad valorem tax on vehicles, which the House voted to eliminate, Perdue said this:

“People love to vote for tax cuts. It’s much tougher to balance a budget, and talk about where those tax cuts come from. I think the people of Georgia get the joke. They want infrastructure, they want education. They want government to work for them,” the governor said. “I kind of liken it to the Wright brothers jumping off of Kitty Hawk and designing an airplane on the way down.”

For the record, we’ve been to Kitty Hawk. It’s not a cliff. You can’t jump off it. Unless the governor was talking about the aircraft carrier. In which case the entire metaphor collapses.

Many thanks to Dick Pettys of InsiderAdvantage for helping us out on the audio.

 

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