Nanny State States
October 19, 2011
In a story on NPR’s All Things Considered yesterday about wine making in New York’s Finger Lakes region, I was shocked to hear that in New York it is against the law for grocery stores to sell wine. I don’t even drink wine and find this very offensive. It is not just the federal government that is a nanny state. Nullification of federal laws by the states is a great idea, but there are thousands of state laws that need to be nullified as well. This stupid law in New York is one of them.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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