PA Liquor Control Board and $820,000 for Eagles Tickets
January 24th, 2010 | by BGuzzardi |
Why does a government enforced monopoly to sell liquor need to advertise at all? $820,000 for Eagle Tickets. And how does tickets to Eagles even accomplish the stated purpose? Or is this a wayt o rewards friends using government taxpayer money?
Republican Mike Vereb of Montgomery County brings this to our attention: Pennsylvania liquor sales are $1.8 billion which generate $495 in revenue for the government, saving taxpayers who don’t buy liquor. “Vereb said every dollar the LCB saves means more money for taxpayers.” The PLC is a huge bureaucracy offering many patronage opportunities.
The Forgotten Taxpayer thinks this is useless expenditure and suspects there is a lot more self-serving spending at the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and other Pennsylvania government authorities which have government powers administered by boards appointed by elected and answering to elected officials. It appears the elected are not protecting Pennsylvania taxpayers’ interests. In reality, the government is so big that elected, actually, have little ability to monitor and supervise. Mike Vereb has done an unusual service for The Forgotten Taxpayer. There is a case to be made for returning sales of liquor to private sector