We Can’t Afford

• …to buy into the $2 billion myth that big alcohol and big-box retailers have been selling to lawmakers and the media.
  
  » A $2 billion MYTH vs. $500 million in HARD CASH every year!
  » Virginia Fiscal Impact Review
• …the potential increase in sales to minors, alcohol-related deaths, and negative impact of wine and liquor sales in convenience stores after privatization.
  
  » Keeping Alcohol Out of the Hands of Pennsylvania’s Young People: Wine and Spirits Store Employees Do It Right
  » Control State Politics Big Alcohol’s Attempt to Dismantle Regulation State by State
  » Impact on alcohol-related mortality of a rapid rise in the density of private liquor outlets in British Columbia: a local area multi-level analysis
  » Study Finds It’s Easy for Minors to Buy Cigarettes in Convenience Stores, Why Not Alcohol?
• …to buy into the myth that consumers will benefit and jobs won’t be lost.
  
  » Liquor prices state by state