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Some state liquor stores back on auction block
The state will auction off 18 liquor stores after bidders failed to pay their bar tabs.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Snookered with that undisclosed 17% fee.
    May 17, 2012 5:17 am
    And now the State Supreme Court will judge the constitutionality of the (multi-topic) initiative itself. .......... Good luck on finding 18 more suckers.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    @ron
    May 17, 2012 8:03 am
    When I voted for I-1183, I clearly understood there is a 17% fee applied to the sale of liquor. Which, in a competitive environment, is much better for the consumer than the mandatory taxes and state markup that the state was using to gouge consumers.

    In a competitive environment, retailers can choose how much, if any, of that fee they want to pass on to the consumer. Before, there was no choice. Consumers had to pay the state tax on top of the mandatory state markup.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Yes, Seattle, I can read, too. But apparently a lot of bidders couldn't.
    May 17, 2012 3:56 pm
    Else, why was it a surprise to so many a couple of weeks ago ? ........................... But the initiative clearly violated the state constitution. So good, bad or down right ugly ........ ?
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    The only thing I didn't like about it...
    May 17, 2012 2:05 pm
    Was the 10,000 sq ft rule. That seems very anti-competitive to me.
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