Privatize liquor sales

Patriot News coverage of yesterday’s hearing on privatizion of the state stores. Read our News Release on the hearing and get the full testimony of Reason Foundation experts here.

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Report from the Liquor Control Board on underage drinking, which concludes that Pennsylvania has similar rates of college-age drinking as the national average (most of which allows private licensees to sell alcohol), and higher rates of high school age drinking (which they attribute to a trend across states in the Northeast).

From the archive – CF Report from 1997 – Privatization of Liquor Stores: No Threat to Public Safety , which finds no greater incidence of drinking and driving from liquor store privatization.