Posted on Jeudi 19 février 2009
Bootleggers’ Delights
Banning Sunday liquor sales pleases Baptists—and also pleases bootleggers by increasing demand for their services.
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Feb 23, 2009
In the name of « stimulus, » Washington is radically broadening its supervision of the economy, so it is time to ponder the paradox of the Baptists and the bootleggers: When politicians ban Sunday liquor sales, they please Baptists by purifying the Lord’s Day, and they please bootleggers by stimulating demand for the bootleggers’ services. So Baptists praise politicians who do something that enriches bootleggers, who give some of their riches to the politicians in campaign contributions.
