Anyone who has been paying attention to the real estate development contracts the Mecklenburg County ABC Board has handed out in recent years has to have marveled at the delightfully interconnected nature of the business. And we’ll just leave it at that while the federal grand jury does its work.
We will, however, point out one more time that taking ABC stores off of the tax rolls and permitting government flunkies to make decisions about where they are built and who builds them are issues created by the government monopoly on liquor sales.
