Welch for State Senate Addresses Sunday Liquor Sales
BRISTOL, CT – Welch for State Senate released the following statement on the state ban of liquor sales on Sunday:
Any time a prohibition is imposed by the state one should always ask why, and the absence of a sufficient justification should be disconcerting. When the state ban on Sunday liquor sales is put to this test, its proponents struggle to articulate a rational basis.
Some contend that the ban is an issue of morality. Yet the state allows us to purchase alcohol on Sundays in any number of restaurants and bars. Thus, morality is not the state’s real basis for the ban. Others claim that it is an issue of safety. However, consuming alcohol at home is safer than consuming alcohol and then driving home. A few argue that small business liquor stores should get a legislated day off. But by that argument we should shut the whole state down on Sundays so other small retailers can get a break too.
Finally, some say it is too expensive to keep businesses open in Connecticut seven days a week. This is true, which is why last year 4000 business closed their doors and 65,000 jobs were lost (making Connecticut the worst state for job losses after Michigan). That is not, however, a reason for banning liquor sales on Sunday everywhere in Connecticut except for bars and restaurants. High taxes, state employment mandates, high energy costs, and excessive regulations and fees make any day you are open in Connecticut too expensive to stay open. The answer to those problems is lowering taxes, reducing mandates, streamlining state permitting, offering job creation tax credits, removing laws that make it more expensive to employ people in Connecticut and getting state spending under control – not banning liquor sales on Sunday everywhere except for bars and restaurants.
The argument to maintain the Sunday liquor ban is a straw man argument. Legislative resources ought to be focused on those things that will get the economic engines in Connecticut moving again and creating jobs today that will remain here into tomorrow.
Jason Welch seeks to be the Republican nominee to the State Senate race for the 31st District, which includes Bristol, Plainville, Plymouth and parts of Harwinton.
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30 comments:
Jason, where were you LAST week, and the week before, before the legislature took up this issue..
Not off to a goog start in my mind!
Well made argument. Focused on job creation. Got my vote and my family's too. Where can we go to sign up to help?
Didn't this die in the legislature already?
Where has this guy been ? Drinking on sunday in Mass.? This lawyer is so smart why does he sound so much like the republicans here! Can't say how we are going to do all this. Blah, Blah Blah same old Republican rhetoric. He may have some money but nobody but his buddies have, obviously! Can't say how?
Such naivete!
Gee these republicans love to do press releases to tell how great they are.
FINALLY AN HONEST PERSON TO REPRESENT THE 31ST DISTRICT. jASON wELCH IS A GOD SENT. hEY TOM i THINK IT"S TIME TO CALL CARROL hUGHS AND START SHAKEN DOWN LIQUOR STORE OWENERS FOR MORE MONEY. CHECK THIS OUT!!http://carpetcity.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/sunday-liquor-contributions/
Finally an honest person to represent the 31st district. Jason Welch is a god sent.Hey Tom, maybe it's time to call Carrol Hughs and start shaking down all the liquor stores in the state. Wow check this out!!!http://carpetcity.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/sunday-liquor-contributions/
Isn't this republican a little behind the times in CT? He's supposed to be business friendly why doesn't he consider what the businesses of the packages stores want? Is he just being another ho-hum republican pretending that like his $$$$$$ friends he really cares what is good for them regardless what they think? Why then with all his knowledge isn't he in the package store business? Maybe he makes more selling insurance?
so where was he before the bill was defeated?
Tommy boy's only justification for this is the contributions he gets. He represents Bristol, but he gets tons of money liquor store people. What a sell-out!
6:40 Whoever you are you would vote for anybody but Colapietro so what was it you said that was good for the Community ? How many jobs and places will lose business just to make your big boys maore profit?
Some pro business phony!
11:51 You would have known where he was if you were truthful. And where were you on your PC playing ?
And where does Welch get his money from? The insurance companies and the phonies like you ?
Why are all you real estate and insurance people alike? no issues of your own? It's called jealousy and Welch is obviously just another of the Republican hacks or puppet!
1:51 Where were you ? Waiting for him to do something so you could find something to complain about ?
7:14
No, I was/am waiting for him to say something meaningful.
After al, HE is the one that chose to run.
Ha Ha At least he wasn't talked into it like the republicans want. Hacks ar e the republicans specialty. They're looking for more puppets. Got any with names?
If Colapietro was beatable Hamzy or Krawiecki would have run.
Are you listening Jason?
If the liquor stores wanted to stay closed on Sunday, couldn't they still do so, even with new legislation? No one would be forcing them to stay open 7 days a week.
In MA the liquor stores are allowed to be open 7 days a week. Not all of them choose to be. The ones that are open typically have moderate sales, there are no lines out the door, only moderate demand for liquor on Sundays even exists. I typically noticed people coming on Sundays to purchase wine for Sunday dinner. I think this law is archaic.
All you pro-business people are forgetting that the package stores are the only businesws in the state that is mandated 12 hrs a day and 6 days a week. A good business person wouldn't tell his steady customers to go somewhere else and buy their alcohol because they wanted the one day off. Kiss that customer goodbye. Then you'd lose them . Get serious get drunk during the week ar oon saturday. Besides the program review committee didn't have the votes to get the bill out. A lot of reasonable people on there. Republicans and Democrats!
11:17 your lodgic is fair but your conclusion is all wrong. The colpinto era is over, we can no longer afford his style of politics (union puppet).
Both Hamzy and Krawieki have their reasons for staying where they are.
Colpinto has no reason to be where he is, while he has served well, it's time for him to go. He should have been man enough to go out a winner, but his boi ish ego has gotten the best of him as always.
I'll vote for this guy because he's not a union hack like Tommie-toupe'.
@ 5:09 pm
But this isn't just about "getting drunk" on Sundays. I'm not sure why Senator Colapietro keeps saying that.
As far as the liquor store hours, I don't think there are mandated hours to stay open, only mandated hours where they must be closed. I could be wrong, though.
I agree that a good business owner wouldn't tell his customers to go somewhere else. But, when deciding on store hours, that's a choice every small businessperson has to make - stay open and retain customers, or close your doors and lose customers.
10:14 That's your opinion and your entitled to it but if your going to be a good senator you should as what your constituents want. And you are wrong they are mandated by law to stay open.
5:09 are you trying to say you don't care what we small businesess want ? You only care that it's convient to buy booze on Sunday ? No matter what it costs the small business owner? Why don't you ask us package stores what we want?
And to the phony 8:35 He's not as crooked as you. You must think that way !
11:17 Art is the reason money ?
6:52
Is one kind of puppet better than another?
Welch may be intelligent, but he knows nothing about the politics involved, and i don't think he has acquired a feel for the people of Bristol.
So. he will take his direction from the moneyed elite, which makes him no different from union puppet.
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