Letter: No more alcohol tax money from me
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Romell Allen at work stocking the aisles at Lee's Discount Liquor store in West Wendover, Nevada, Tuesday November 7, 2017. It is the 22nd — and largest — store for the large liquor retailer at 30,000 square feet. The Wendover store is surely a temptation for Utah consumers as it carries 6,000 different types of products at lower prices than Utah liquor stores. But it is illegal to bring booze across state lines.
Once again, Utah is last to satisfy the people who live here and only seeks to further the tourists’ common notion, "You cannot get a drink in Utah." (We almost got rid of that stigma.)
Soon the big breweries will stop all sales to Utah and we will end up with nothing but overpriced warm beer to buy for off-site consumption at inconvenient hours from the few-and-far-between state liquor stores.
Well, off to Evanston or Wendover with a cooler so I can buy beer that is kept cold, the way it should be. Bye-bye, Utah. No more alcohol tax money from me. And, while I am out of state, I will surely stock up on wines and liquors, too. So, Utah, you just lost even more money.
Paul Jerominski, Salt Lake City
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