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CMV: Blue Laws surrounding the sale of liquor and beer are old & antiquated, and have no purpose other than to uphold the status quo.

I live in Texas. A state that has extremely outdated Blue Laws that prohibit the sale of liquor past 9PM (M-Sat), and require all liquor stores to be closed on Sundays. Not to mention, you can only buy liquor at a designated liquor store (although you can get beer and wine at grocery stores, convenient stores, etc.) 

It makes no sense in a free market, capitalist society (especially in a Red State) that these laws exist. They prohibit the sale of goods to a market that clearly exists, and it feels borderline unconstitutional considering many blue laws have religious origins and/or influences. 

This pious paternalism by blue law states has given way to a ridiculous protectionist argument. Look no further than the owners of various liquor stores (or chains) who worry that competition will force them to work harder without guaranteeing a commensurate increase in revenue. Which is bullshit. 

It appears the only thing Blue Laws want to protect are the establishment, not the consumers. We can still walk into a bar on Sunday (past noon) and get rip-roaring drunk, etc. So please, challenge me here. Change my view. Why are Blue Laws good? How is this a free market concept? I can vote. I can get drafted. But God forbid I want to buy a bottle of Pappy on Sunday. THE HORROR.
gpt
\> They prohibit the sale of goods to a market that clearly exists

This is, surprisingly, actually a misperception.

It's often not conservative, puritan people who want liquor sales outlawed on sundays, but the *liquor stores themselves* which exist in what they understand as a conservative area. If it were legal, then to compete with large grocery chains, small liquor stores would have to be open on Sundays and lose money as a result.

You could actually argue that these laws protect small businesses from losing to big ones.