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- From: tgross@cvbnet.prime.com (Tom Gross)
- Newsgroups: ne.general
- Subject: Re: Sunday Liquor Sales
- Message-ID: <4474@cvbnetPrime.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:32:15 GMT
- References: <15Dec92041802@miracle.com> <BZS.92Dec15211150@world.std.com>
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- In article <BZS.92Dec15211150@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
- |>
- |> From: phil@miracle.com (Phil Hill)
- |> >If you have been reading the posts in this newsgroup, you'd see that most (not
- |> >all) of the people here feel that the "blue laws" are out of date, and no
- |> >longer needed.
- |>
- |> Doubtless, I am sure this list is well represented with people who
- |> might man liquor stores on Sundays...let us allow the wolves to vote
- |> the fate of the sheep.
- |>
- |> >Your opinion is in the minority.
- |>
- |> Among perhaps 10 people on ne.general...?
-
- I agree with Barry: blue laws are good. In Germany, at least
- 18 years ago when I was student there (and I doubt things have
- changed much in this regard), stores were only allowed to be
- open on Saturday MORNINGS, not at all on Sundays, and then
- once a MONTH stores could be open Saturday afternoon. It was
- a real pain in the butt for consumers, but people survived,
- and before the latest Anschluss, the german economy seemed
- pretty healthy.
-
- In Massachusetts we had a referendum on this in 1976.
- I remember how I voted, but I guess I lost. The real problem
- is NEW HAMPSHIRE. We really need federal laws to govern this
- sort of thing...
-
- /tom
-