Governor Sonny Perdue sent out a press release with an idiotic defense of a continued ban on Sunday sales meant to be used as an op-ed in newspapers. It cited a study, which must make it true, right?
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded a study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, to uncover the legislation’s long-term effects using data from the first five years that alcohol sales on Sunday were allowed.
The study found that legalizing Sunday packaged alcohol sales “exacts a significant price that is paid by crash victims and their loved ones, health care providers, insurers, law enforcement and the judicial systems.â€Â
Just a little problem: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is a neo-prohibitionist group, which makes the study about as credible as any story I’ll tell tonight at pool after about eight drinks. Which is to say, not credible at all.
I don’t understand why Sonny hates the people who drive on the other six days of the week. WHY DO YOU WANT US TO DIE, SONNY??? I mean, if it’s his responsibility to stick up for the supposed safety of the Sunday-driving public, he’s being incredibly inconsistent in ignoring all of the other days of the week.
Meaningless rhetoric unless you ban alcohol sales every day of the week.
Unless they chose to drive on any other day.
And so on… In case you don’t know me, no, I don’t actually support full prohibition. I’m just following Governor Perdue’s argument to its logical conclusion.