Two legislators from Guilford County are prime movers in a proposal to privatize alcohol sales in North Carolina and liquidate the state’s network of locally owned ABC stores.
State Reps. Jon Hardister, R-Whitsett, and Pricey Harrison, D-Greensboro, are among the four primary sponsors of a bill that would allow supermarkets or other licensed retailers to sell hard alcohol and other forms of what the law calls “spiritous liquor.”
Hardister said his interest in changing the law that currently limits such sales to government-owned, operated and regulated liquor stores dates back years and stems from his belief in “free market” economics.
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