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Letter: Carding the elderly who are buying liquor is stupid. What’s the game here?

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Customers line up outside the state liquor and wine store in Saratoga Springs, on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020.

This is in regard to Utah’s archaic and asinine liquor laws. I am 68 years old and look every minute of it. Yet when I go to the State Store to buy my wife a bottle of wine, I get ID’d.

Today, I went on about a 20 mile bike ride. On the way home, I stopped at a local tavern for a well-deserved beer. I’ve been a customer there for 25+ years, and yet, for the first time ever, got ID’d.

What’s the point? Are you so distrustful of your employees, that you don’t think they can’t differentiate a geezer from a teenager? I can remember when the stores had signs that said, “If you look like you might be under 30 years old, you will have to produce an ID.” That’s reasonable. Carding people on Social Security is stupid.

So what’s the game here? I generally lean to the left, but I’m going to go Tucker/Hannity deep state here, and suggest that you are just mining information that is none of your business.

To what end? Pray tell.

Steve Russell, Moab

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