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LCB Is Unfazed by Corbett; Continues Its Roll Out of Fine Wine and Good Spirits Stores

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We’re not sure which is more naive, the Pennsylvania electorate’s belief that Republican Tom Corbett can plug the state’s $5 billion budget gap without raising taxes, or the Governor-elect himself and his belief that he can sell off the state’s liquor stores. Let’s face it as long as the Keystone State keeps providing services — you know for stuff like highways, water, schools and law enforcement — there will be tax increases. And as the country’s largest purchaser of wine and liquor, the LCB is too powerful and deeply entrenched to simply let a politician from a Pennsyltucky podunk divest it of its key moneymaker, the state stores. If the newly remodeled Fine Wine & Good Spirits store in South Philly that Brownstoner reported on yesterday tells us anything it’s that the LCB is unfazed by Corbett’s empty pledges and expects to be in business long enough to see its new pilot retail program rolled out and in place across the state long after Corbett’s one term is up. [Philadelphia Brownstoner]

LCB Is Unfazed by Corbett; Continues Its Roll Out of Fine Wine and Good Spirits