Residency restriction for liquor distributors should go
It’s time for Indiana to get rid of a law that limits liquor distribution to in-state companies.
IBJ Staff
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EDITORIAL: Time to lower liquor barrier-WEB ONLY
Indiana liquor distributors are small and some of their counterparts outside the state are huge, so it’s understandable why the locals are desperate to preserve an old statute banning out-of-state competitors. But let’s be real. Protectionist measures like this one should have been axed decades ago. They make about as much sense as township government. […]
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