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ELI5: Why does Pennsylvania have state-run liquor stores and what is the argument against privatising them?
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It has them for historical reasons. The original reasoning was probably something about public morals, but it was also decades ago. At this point plenty of people have tried to privatize it and they just debated doing so last summer. The issue is that the government employees who work there have a union and are actually paid pretty well. Getting rid of an entrenched government system is hard enough on its own, but it's damn near impossible to get rid of a few thousand union jobs in Pennsylvania and still get elected again next year.