Honestly, letting local officials handle liquor licenses instead of the state is a step in the right direction

Centralized control always leads to unnecessary bureaucracy and inflated costs, so anything that cuts red tape for small businesses is a win in my book. It's ridiculous that the state has been artificially limiting competition and driving up prices for something as basic as a liquor license. The government needs to get out of the way and let people run their own businesses. Now, if only they’d apply that same logic to prescription drug price controls and the rest of that bloated budget.