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Are terrible state alcohol laws on the way out?
June 26, 2017
originally published in
Reason
Alcohol regulations in this country could improve dramatically if more state courts would reject bald economic protectionism as a valid basis for lawmaking. That’s the conclusion of a new study published last week by the R Street Institute, a free-market think tank in Washington, D.C.
The new study, Could Economic Liberty Litigation ‘Free the Booze’?, uses the hook of a recent South Carolina court case to suggest—hopefully—that we may be seeing the dawn of a new period of much-needed state alcohol deregulation.
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