Governor Malloy Wants Cheaper Booze
HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he has introduced legislation that will empower businesses by modifying a 1981 state law, which mandates that retailers of alcoholic beverages sell their products at certain – and artificially high – prices. The proposal will put the authority to determine the prices of these products back into the hands of retailers and out of the hands of government. Currently, Connecticut is the only state in the region with a law requiring that retailers of alcoholic beverages sell their products at a minimum price determined by the wholesaler industry. That means retailers cannot set the price of the products they put on the shelves in their own stores. As a…