Standard-Examiner Editorial: Dump The State Liquor Monopoly!

Yet in Utah, we still view enjoying a drink like a professional prude stumbling into a peep show in a dark alley in Amsterdam.

Standard-Examiner Editorial
OUR VIEW: Utah, stop selling liquor!
June 4, 2010

Strikingly sensible editorial in this morning's Standard-Examiner, urging the State of Utah to get out of the liquor business, and to turn over the marketing of adult beverages to the private sector, where it would belong in a free market economy:

• OUR VIEW: Utah, stop selling liquor!

We can't help but note the political irony of having a state legislature which actively promotes privatization of every endeavor from road construction to public schools, and yet prudishly clings to the Prohibition Era notion that a liquor monopoly ought to be run by a free market-adverse "nanny state ."

Great editorial... and Grondahl's morning cartoon is the editorial frosting on the cake.

In reality however, we won't hold our breath waiting for this...


Or this...


And what say our gentle readers about all this?