[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

The government should stay out of private buisness. Next they will add another tax on it. What they should do is make the establishment responsible for any physical altercations that happen within a 1 mile radius of the location. They should be forced to pay for the cops, ambulance etc to show up.

Are you serious?
You think it's unreasonable for the government to make bars charge a minimum price to reduce the ammount of liquor consumed, but you think a viable alternate solution is to make bars pay for anything that happens within a mile of the bar?

How many bars are within a mile of the old cowboys? Let's see, I can think of about 20 without giving it much tought. So who pays for an ambulance call that's halfway between Cowboys and the Whiskey? Besides that, how is forcing bars to pay for ambulance calls 10 blocks away going to make people in the bar think twice about getting into a scrap? There has to be some deterrant to the bargoes to actually make a difference.

Is enforcing a minimum price going to make much of a dent in violence outside of bars? Probably not, but your solution is just plain silly.

That all being said, I think the real solution is to do away with mandatory closing times. Let everyone trickle out at their own pace instead of kicking everyone out at the same time. Nothing says trouble like a few hundred drunk folks milling around outside a bar at 2:00am.