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Title: Felony Charge for Selling a Wisconsin Beer In Minnesota: Americans, This is Where We Live
Source:
Reason
URL Source: http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/11/f ... rge-for-selling-a-wisconsin-be
Published: Feb 11, 2016
Author: Brian Doherty
Post Date: 2016-02-13 11:44:33 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 246
Comments: 3
Complete f-ing insanity from the outskirts of the Land of the Free, as reported by Minnesota Star-Tribune, about a former pair of publicans from Minnesota who will be going to court in March facing felony charges for selling Spotted Cow beer at the Maple Tavern in Maple Grove, Minnesota. The former owner and manager (the bar is under new management now with a new liquor license) Brandon Hlavka and David Lantos face a felony charge for transporting alcohol into Minnesota for resale without the requisite license to do that. The beer, New Glaurus Spotted Cow, is from Wisconsin and since its manfacturer is not licensed to sell in Minnesota, it is against the law to sell it in the state. The barmen bought some kegs of it retail in Wisconsin and moved it across state lines to sell to their microbrew-thirsty customers. America has an unnamed "anonymous tipster" to Wisconsin's Department of Revenue, who then squealed to Minnesota's Department of Public Safety, to thank for this most American of felony prosecutions. Take a bow, you anonymous patriot! As City Pages reports, agents went in and were served the illegal beer, before they then seized three kegs and the prosecution began. A New York bar faced the same nonsensical prosecution over the same beer in 2009. Jesse Walker on the craft beer revolution, not yet gone far enough. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
It just now occurred to the author that this law is insane? It's been on the books for almost 100 years. Following Prohibition, the 21st amendment turned the alcohol legalization decision over to each state: "Section 2. The transportation ... into any State ... for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited."
Minnesota has an excise tax on the manufacturer of beer, and retail tax on its sale. I wonder how the smugglers paid those taxes?
On time and in full. Shut up.
"Complete f-ing insanity from the outskirts of the Land of the Free"
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
#3. To: Roscoe (#2)
"I wonder how the smugglers paid those taxes?"
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