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The mind of a bureaucrat. "Operate a prvate store where an ABC store wouldn't be profitable". Where does the line form!! What a moron. PRIVATIZE. It's dunces like this that show the whole NC ABC System needs to be eliminated. No commissions, no study groups. Find the state with the most profitable and least bureaucratic system and copy it

To make sure I understand this correctly: The commission chair recommends that both the state and private retailers sell alcohol? This is likely to work, one need only look at the USPS for a precedent on what happens to a government operation once competition is introduced. Either take control of sales or cut the program loose and settle for regulating it.

One only has to look at Indiana to see that opening the sales of alcohol to private companies will result in liquor stores on every corner. Believe me, I long for the days when you had to look for the ABC store tucked away from the grocery store and out of sight of the little ones. Regulation of private liquor licenses will result in more confusion and will not generate any new revenues for the state. This is one of the things the State needs to maintain so it can make some kind of a profit.

Let a person acquire a license and open a liquor store. Privatize the stores.

That's what Republicans like, isn't it. If they want to privatize social security, it seems like the least they could do is privatize the liquor stores.

I do not agree that the NC ABC system should be privatized. We do need control in this State. We have enough drinking and driving as it is now. The sell of spiritous liqour should be overseen by trained professionals that really care about (and are not benefiting personally from the sell) if you are underage or already intoxicated and not sold to just make a "buck". ABC employees do not make profit from selling a bottle of liqour nor is their pay cut because they did not sell it to someone underage or someone already intoxicated. They insure that it is sold properly under the law. I for one appreciate the work that the ABC employees do because they keep the "already drunk" from being our worst nightmare!

If the ABC is privatized, Mom and Pop liquor stores will not really care if you're already intoxicated or underage, they will just want to make the sell. And when they do, and they will, make the sell, legally or not is when the death toll from alcohol use and abuse will rise higher in NC.

Another point to think about is job loss. Yes, jobs will be created, but more jobs will be lost than created.

Just for informational purposes: Greensboro ABC employees are not State or City employees. They do not have State or City pensions, insurance, 401K or medical. The State only controls the sales of liqour and sets prices.

Another point is that Guilford County benefits greatly from the taxes that are generated thru the sale of each bottle of liquor. More funds are also put into alcohol rehabilitation and education.