A License for Slavery
In the mail today I got about three public notices to various people that have lived here (including myself) about a nearby business requesting a liquor license. According to the notice:
“Pursuant to section 4-60-050 of the Chicago Municipal code, the City is required to send public notice of a new package goods, tavern, or incidental license application to all legal voters within 250 feet of the proposed location. All objections must be received by the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection/Local Liquor Control Commission within 40 days of the date of application shown above. If received by the 40th day, your comments will be taken into consideration by the Mayor’s License Commission before any decision is rendered on the issuance of the license. In the event a hearing is commenced in this matter you may be required to provide testimony in person to support your complain or comment. ”
Let us forget that city licensees are for nobody’s good except the city’s treasury, that city licenses are simply a large money making protection scheme run by the city any using the Chicago Police as enforcers. Let us forget that in addition to the whims of government arbitrarily approving or denying licenses, the whims of the people can also influence this arbitrary process. Let us forget all of this.
What right does anybody have to deny you the ability to sell liquor on your own property? What right does anybody have to tell you what you can do on your own property as long as you don’t infringe the rights of other people? The only possibly way for this to be morally right is if the government owns the land. A license to sell liquor is the government asserting the idea that the government owns everybody’s land. It’s good to be the king.
