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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
It is interesting now one has to take a test to be a bartender.
Years back, the only requirement in Texas to own a bar was make sure someone knew the regulations.
Oh and the owner could not be drunk in his own bar.
Yes, I threw my boss out more than once.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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What sort of regulations and tests exist is very much a local matter.
One likely selector will be whether liquor is a state monopoly. For instance, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania is a place where liquor is a state monopoly. You can only buy hard liquor in State Stores, and the selection will be those approved by the state. Liquor is also more expensive, with a variety of state excise taxes and surcharges in top of sales taxes. There is a very healthy smuggling trade in consequence between PA and DE and NJ, where taxes are far lower.
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Dennis
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Ah yes, the still after all these year strange patchwork of laws regulation alcohol sales in the United Sates. All of this dating back to the wording of the amendment repealing national prohibition:
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AMENDMENT XXI
Section 1.
The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2.
The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
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To this day has left a strange patch work of laws that can vary not only by state, but by county or even city within a state.
When my family first moved to Dallas, about 1967, there were no regular bars legal. One could belong to a private club where one could store a bottle of liquor and while at the club be served drinks from that. Or so I recall my parents saying. I was curious about that and found this article that prove Dallas remains strange to this day:
http://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2010/09/7793/
I recall that when I lived in Maryland for a period in the early 1970s there was some issue with laws there, or maybe it was taxes, that made it worthwhile to cross into a neighboring state to purchase beer or wine. Can't really remember what that was about.