Absolut Genius!

An entrepreneur in Dansville in the People’s Democratic Socialist Dystopia of New York brilliantly “uses the system against itself,” as Doug Hand observed when he forwarded the story to me:

The sign “Town Tavern” still hangs on Main Street in Dansville, and the door is sometimes left wide open.

However, Dansville Mayor Pete Vogt says the bar has been closed for months and is accusing the owner of bending COVID safety rules and serving liquor without a license.

The new owner of the bar … [says] it is private property and he isn’t doing anything wrong.

Indeed! Behold the beauty of the Catch-22 bureaucrats have created for themselves: because the “New York State liquor authority … pulled the liquor license from the Town Tavern on August 7 after several violations, … it has no jurisdiction … and says enforcement [against sales of alcohol without bureaucratic permission] is up to local police.”

Equally thrilling, 

The Livingston County Health Department …[claims that] due to the Town Tavern’s self proclamation as a private club, it is not able to regulate COVID rules there. It says it would only regulate it if it was a “food service establishment”.

Oh, love it! I say we bottle whatever this owner imbibes and dispense it far and wide to the sheeple, because it’s one potent brew:

The mayor claims the owner was able to dismiss police because it was his private property.

“He had gone in there and that the owner had actually escorted him out and said it was a private affair and that he had no business being there,” said Vogt.

What wouldn’t we give to have witnessed this comeuppance in person!

The mayor says police are also accusing the owner of accepting donations in exchange for drinks.

Well done, Mr. Owner!

“We know that liquor is being served in there. Supposedly for donations only. Well if you are serving people in there, it still strikes me as a bar,” said Vogt.

Poor baby: no cut of the profits even as Mr. Owner thumbs his nose at him!

Meanwhile, businesses without Town Tavern’s cojones are pea-green with envy:

Jason Howard owns the Gaslight Grill next door and says he is frustrated with the lack of enforcement.

“It’s not fair to the businesses that are doing things right,” he said. “Why do I need a liquor license if he doesn’t? If he wants a legitimate business, he should go through the process like everyone else and adhere to all the rules like everyone else.”

Doug Hand astutely analyzed this beef:

Jason started out exactly correct – why does he need a liquor license? Oh wait, perhaps it is a protectionist racket for Jason and his ilk to minimize competition? And possibly add to government coffers?

Yo, Jas: why not grow a spine and defy Danville’s tyrants alongside the Town Tavern?

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8:45 pm on October 3, 2020