Minnesota to be beerless?
Old Trooper has been keeping TSO and me apprised of the situation in Minnesota in regards to the sudden impending shortage of the brewed food groups. See, we’re going to be there next month and if there’s no beer, why would we go?
The problem stems from brand label registrations that brewers must renew with the state every three years, showing the label on each brand of beer. MillerCoors attempted to renew in mid-June, but, according to company officials, sent the state a check for more than the required amount. Green said the company followed up with a new check, which the state received June 27.
But on June 30, one day before the government shutdown, the company received a letter from the state that its brand licenses had expired. State employees who would typically renew those licenses have been deemed noncritical during the shutdown and laid off.
Noncritical? That seems a bit arbitrary and capricious.
It gets worse;
But if the shutdown were to last into October, another brewing behemoth would have to grapple with an expired license: Anheuser-Busch, responsible for 48 percent of all U.S. beer sales and producers of Bud and Bud Light.
It seems to me that blocking that much business doesn’t help the state recover from it’s problems. I mean, I’m sure it will affect tax revenues.
Category: Who knows
No beer no peace!!!!
That’s ok, I’m only 45 minutes from the nearest border, so it looks like Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Canada are going to be seeing an increase in beer sales.
The dumbass state hacks couldn’t just issue the license and send a check refunding the difference?
Stupid is as the DFL does. Not only are we losing beer sales tax revenue, but the lottery is shutdown, and so is the racetrack. Guardsmen can’t get tuition reimbursement.
Just wait though-MN could be a dry run for the fed shutdown if the debt ceiling doesn’t get agreed on.
Sometimes you have to take the bad with the good. No government: good. No beer due to arbitrary licensing rules: good – get the government to scrap the rules. No beer because you can’t afford to drive to where there’s beer: bad.
BAR-MEGGEDON! BY GOD!
No worries, y’all. The governor caved to the Republican budget plan…
It’s curious that Minnesotans did okay with the shutdown. Good for them. In fact, they may have been getting real comfortable with idea of shutting down state government (unpaid) for one month every summer, and that’s when the Democrat Governor decided to fold.
Well, Miss Ladybug, it ain’t a done deal, yet. It seems that Gov. Dumbass has agreed with the June 30th GOP plan “with conditions”. So, in other words, He wants to agree with it if he gets his “conditions” which would essentially take away the meat of the GOP plan and we will be back to square one. It was a great political move in a PR aspect, because it appears he is bending and compromising, but the “conditions” are what is really the heart of the matter and might not be a compromise at all.
Here’s what he said:
“Dayton said his acceptance was contingent on Republicans’ dropping all controversial policy positions as well as the push to cut 15 percent of the state’s work force, and the passage of a $500 million bonding bill.”
What does Gov. Dumbass consider “controversial policy positions”?
That’s the hook.