Comments on: Bureaucracies Never Die http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/bureaucracies_n.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/07/bureaucracies_n.html/comment-page-1#comment-2932 Matt Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:52:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/07/bureaucracies_n.html#comment-2932 <p>The original mission of their organization has been to prevent where possible, and deter where absolute prevention proves impossible, the expansion of the supply of entities providing alcohol to consumers. In this mission they're pushed forward by the unholy union of neo-prohibitionists (who want access to liquor itself reduced or eliminated) and incumbent licensees (who have no problem with liquor, but would like to use the coercive power of the state to burn the ladder they climbed up on).</p> <p>They haven't _forgotten_ it at all. It sounds like they're being rather successful in their mission.</p> <p>Of course, whether that mission is a legitimate function of government (or bears any resemblance to the "mission" they openly articulate in public) is another matter entirely. :)</p> The original mission of their organization has been to prevent where possible, and deter where absolute prevention proves impossible, the expansion of the supply of entities providing alcohol to consumers. In this mission they’re pushed forward by the unholy union of neo-prohibitionists (who want access to liquor itself reduced or eliminated) and incumbent licensees (who have no problem with liquor, but would like to use the coercive power of the state to burn the ladder they climbed up on).

They haven’t _forgotten_ it at all. It sounds like they’re being rather successful in their mission.

Of course, whether that mission is a legitimate function of government (or bears any resemblance to the “mission” they openly articulate in public) is another matter entirely. :)

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