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but, but, but, the "free market" / compe ion solves all problems.
Scott may be too modest to post this but he's been writing an excellent blog about the fight to get rid of restrictions on Texas brewpubs.
This should concern anyone who claims to care about small business growth. Your Texas politicians are stifling in-state business growth for the benefit of out-of-state macro brewers like Coors and A-B.
http://brewednotbattered.wordpress.c...wballs-chance/
but, but, but, the "free market" / compe ion solves all problems.
Typical boutons. Spouting off useless rhetoric without bothering to actually read up on the topic at hand.
Good luck, Scott! , I'll drink your beer as long as I don't have to drive to San Antonio to get it.
Typical corporate/political espousing/adoring loudly but rigging "free markets" to reduce compe ion, maintain a no-compete price-fixing cartel, erect barriers for new entrants.
Identical to Southwest Airlines getting Texas High speed rail killed. Texas oilcos refiners hated, hate high speed rail, too because it got people out of cars.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 02-04-2011 at 03:46 PM.
what an interesting blog......thanks for posting that.....I travel some and its nice to go into independent breweries and try out their specialty beers.....San Antonians in general get too easily stuck on one beer and they are afraid to try new things...that's a shame for people who support these independent brewers...
Fight the good fight Scott!
The three-tier distribution system in this country is sickening, but its support is pretty bipartisan thanks to Anheiser-Busch's relentless bribery in Washington.
Strangely enough, I can go to my local HEB and find all kinds of micro brews. And, a vast assortment of wines.
None of those would be from Texas breweries who serve on site. In other states you can own a brewpub/restaurant like Freetail and still sell your beer in stores. Texas won't let you do that, for no good reason.
Thanks for posting this and bringing more attention to the situation, Spurminator. My industry is one that will never be able to compete in a battle of lobbyist dollars, so we must truly rely on grass roots support and the hope that the will of the people would eventually prevail.
Cheers,
Scott
Here's hoping!
"rely on grass roots support and the hope that the will of the people would eventually prevail."
yep, that worked out great for the tea baggers. Their candidates were defeated, and those that got elected hired DC insiders as staff, and got corrupted immediately. Tea baggers will change nothing in DC.
"grass roots" citizens, even legit ones, can't compete with the high-powered, heavily funded, full-time lobbyists who buy politicians.
UCA has completely disenfranchised Human-Americans.
in bull . Set our people free!
You, Darrin, and Wild Cobra should all get together. Then you should each borrow one of WC's guns, then you should each put gun in mouth..........then pull the trigger.
Your are ING WORTHLESS on this site............I can only imagine how worthless you must be in real life.
Is this the new civility I've been hearing about?
lol. I was hungover and cranky when I got on here this morning.........sorry about that.
Normally, behavior like this would be grounds for an anti-trust monopoly case, but what do you do when the government is the one creating/supporting the monopoly?
You are in the age of the internet.
1) You have the favorable position of being the underdog, hard working small business. The american public is a sucker for this stereotype.
2) You can wage a propaganda war, and you would win. However, you have to be creative. Start a YouTube channel. Find your poster boy/face of the struggle, a small brewery, preferably family owned, that is struggling financially because of this. Make videos dramatic and designed to pull at heart strings, etc...
3) Start an organization in your area that will represent all small businesses in your industry for your county/state. You will be the spearhead and provide the soundbites/representation to the media if it ever picks up. Call it whatever you want, "American Small Brewery Protection Association" (name sucks, only example)
Just don't become another corrupted a-hole if you succeed and get approached for a bribe/buyout whatever.
"when the government is the one creating/supporting the monopoly"
As Bruce Sprinsteen would sing it:
I Wuz ... ed in UCA!
I Wuz ... ed in UCA!
I don't see how that isn't a major lawsuit.
So what would happen if a restaurant wanted to sell only local beer?
They can do that. But those local distributors are not legally allowed to sell their product at the brewery.
"major lawsuit."
application of monopoly and other such business practices laws is purely political. You think Perry and his Repug thugs gonna go after big business?
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