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Transcript for file: 2014-3-28_in_liquor_sales_noon.mp3

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when power is operated power 7070 liquor at the corner of Interstate 70

7th Street in Terre Haute from more than 40 years is stores closed on Sundays

is a staff is entitled to a day off and consumers should understand that nothing wrong

people and they been customer buy it for 6 days I think they can continue to be

custom banners smart enough and I don’t think from statistics after the era

percentage Gondry creation of America worth wild on the other side of the

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big box stores like a Walmart or grocery store open at liquor violence

draw and more business grant Monaghan is president of the Indiana retail Council

is a state has its of retail environment and liquor store owners hide behind a lot of protected status

the status quo a study by his group estimate Indiana loses about 10 million dollars

Aaron lost sales an excise tax revenue from those who buy their liquor from neighboring states

states what we can’t document but what we also highly suspect is

windows folks who live in Indiana near the state line and cross

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cross over into a neighboring state to buy alcoholic beverages on Sunday for taking

shopping list with them so does it just the the case of beers are picking up in Illinois

driving back to Indiana to taking the whole shopping list a few years ago

lobbying for a change the hope for a breakthrough with representative

head of the Indiana House Public Policy Committee the Republican

publican from the port replaced another Republican Bill Davis who left the legislature for a state job

state jobs you repeatedly refuse to bring the liquor Bella for a boat siding public safety concerns

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2014 measure to reverse the ban on Sunday liquor sales was filed late

late in the session and couldn’t serve the issue justice by trying to advance it at the last minute

you know I want some time to research the issue in that means more than talking too small town liquors

liquor stores have to work at more than individual that just won Sunday sales

and look at the bigger picture

Amazon allow me to do and I’m excited about that the ban on Sunday package liquor

is an example of the term blue laws shopping on Sunday 4

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or simply as a day of rest none of the research that I’ve done

that this was really a temperance movement Georgia Tech

Jack economics professor David la ban water the book in the 19 eighties on bull laws

does Indiana directions on liquor sales are not about religion alcohol is one of the

one of those businesses that very typically has been handled by

buy a small proprietor in there no different than any of the other small operators they don’t want

they don’t want to be open 7 days a week I’d like to have one day a week with a kid get a little bit of time off

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just a so called blue laws respect sunday car sales in Illinois when Barber of 7

seventh and 70 liquors recall the time with lots of things work for sale on Sunday in South consumer

UC after going to grandmas and grandpas on Sunday

side and nothing was open but a grocery store in a gas station so its skin buy lumber on San Diego

fired by else is just a customer select they have to have a go to McDonalds

2 a.m. In the morning to buy stomach cause I want when I want bands on Sunday

sunday package liquor sales are in place in 11 other states clothing Minnesota

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Tulsa limit the cell’s do bars and restaurants in Texas liquor stores are closed on Sunday

afternoon in some of those days

states grocery stores will only saw was known as low alcohol beer or 3.2 percent beer

beer representative Tom Dermody says he wants to take some time off valuating does loss and others

are there States as he prepares for Indiana’s next legislative session

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