 Lubbock is wet, well sorta |
| Lubbock is wet, well sorta |
 Nov 26 2006, 08:37 PM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 885 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, Texas Member No.: 12  |
so it looks as if the city council has successfully annexed the strip.
This basically means they can still sell alcohol since they are grandfathered in but now prices are going to increase 1.5% for the city sales tax. Alcohol still cant be sold in the rest of the city. QUOTE Council approves annexation of 'The Strip'
BY JAMES GALLAGHER AVALANCHE-JOURNAL The city of Lubbock is now wet, though hopefully not too wet. The City Council finalized its annexation of "The Strip" on Tuesday and updated its irrigation ordinance to reduce waste from lawn watering. The council voted 5-1 to annex the row of package alcohol stores along the Tahoka Highway. Councilman Floyd Price voted against the annexation. Price has long criticized the plan as a money grab. The city estimates it will gain about $500,000 - equal to a half a cent on the property tax rate - in sales tax revenue through the annexation. The city will add 1.5 cents to the sales tax charged at The Strip, meaning area residents will have to pay 1.5 percent more for their beer, wine and liquor. For example, the addition to the sales tax means a $6.99 six-pack of beer will cost 10 cents more. Andy Burcham, the city's director of fiscal policy and strategic planning, said the sales taxes won't kick in until April 1, in accordance with state law. "They give them a little time to get ready ... change the computers and stuff," he said. |
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Nov 26 2006, 09:14 PM
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 Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
I love how the writer of that article added "though hopefully not too wet."
 Douchebag. Prohibition is simply legislating someone else's morality and preventing adults from making adult decisions. Not to mention the churches in this town are making a killing off of that monopoly. Fuck those corrupt bastards! -------------------- |
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Nov 27 2006, 08:20 PM
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 Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
QUOTE (Psykopath @ Nov 26 2006, 09:14 PM)  I love how the writer of that article added "though hopefully not too wet." Douchebag. Prohibition is simply legislating someone else's morality and preventing adults from making adult decisions. Not to mention the churches in this town are making a killing off of that monopoly. Fuck those corrupt bastards! All law legislates morality... -------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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Nov 27 2006, 08:35 PM
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Why so serious? Group: Global Moderators Posts: 5,286 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Fate, TX Member No.: 4 |
QUOTE (Dr. Gonzo @ Nov 27 2006, 08:20 PM) All law legislates morality... Ok... there is general "for the moral good of the public" kind of general knowledge stuff (murder is bad, rape is bad, stealing is bad) then there is "religion X's morality" in law (sodomy is bad, sex toys are a sin, gambling is a sin, etc...) Yes, all law MAY come from some sort of morality, but I was leaning more towards the "sin" nature of the current law on the books regarding alcohol sales in Lubbock. -------------------- |
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jwttu Lubbock is wet Nov 26 2006, 08:37 PM
impala454 QUOTE (Psykopath @ Nov 27 2006, 08:35 PM)... Nov 28 2006, 01:48 PM Psykopath QUOTE (impala454 @ Nov 28 2006, 01:48 PM)... Nov 28 2006, 04:54 PM
lamont's lament QUOTE (Psykopath @ Nov 28 2006, 04:54 PM)... Nov 28 2006, 05:07 PM Trespass QUOTE (Psykopath @ Nov 28 2006, 04:54 PM)... Nov 28 2006, 05:26 PM Rocky I have heard so many things on this issue that I r... Nov 26 2006, 09:21 PM psidancer They could buy all the land they want, but if/when... Nov 26 2006, 09:31 PM Aaron This figures - Lubbock figures out a way to make b... Nov 26 2006, 10:50 PM rabble lubbock is going to get a taste of that alchohol t... Nov 26 2006, 10:55 PM Jwilly pretty much Lubbock wants the tax money from the s... Nov 27 2006, 12:01 AM TetraGrammaton Cleric this just allows the strip to have lubbock water/g... Nov 27 2006, 03:25 AM Hartmann It is Lubbock realizing that there is money (and g... Nov 28 2006, 08:34 AM Psykopath I'm basing my knowledge of this issue on 22 ye... Nov 28 2006, 05:34 PM impala454 a heavy drinking atmosphere does typically result ... Nov 28 2006, 07:51 PM Spectatrix Yeah, tell that to the Baptists... Nov 28 2006, 07:57 PM impala454 which is exactly why i didn't say baptist
ev... Nov 28 2006, 08:07 PM Spectatrix QUOTE (impala454 @ Nov 28 2006, 07:07 PM)... Nov 28 2006, 08:19 PM impala454 that'd be the first i heard of it... i was rai... Nov 28 2006, 09:21 PM Rocky The comment about all law is morality legislation ... Nov 28 2006, 09:24 PM Dr. Gonzo Jesus turned water into wine Nov 28 2006, 09:47 PM |
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