The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board is hoping that their new 250,000-square-foot building off Congressman Dickinson Drive will be ready in Montgomery next year.

The new warehouse is expected to cost $98 million. The facility will be paid for by ABC’s operating expenses over 20 years.

ABC Chief Operating Officer Neil Graff told members of the Legislature’s General Fund committee that while some of their short term contributions to the fund will decrease, he said, “In 20 years, it will be a great contributor to the General Fund.”

I have a better idea to help with revenues to the government: Shut it down.

Sell the new building to someone else and completely dismantle the ABC Control Board.

The $98 million would go much further in a free market system than it would in a gov

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