If you thought leaving a spouse was tough, just be thankful that you’re not a brewery in need of a divorce from your dead-beat distributor. A recently released video from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy explains how the mandatory three-tier system for alcohol distribution has resulted in an acrimonious relationship between brewers and wholesalers and the deleterious effects it has had on the state’s market.
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This is an excerpt from the website OpenMarket.org, a project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. For the full article, please click here.
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See also:
Video: The Michigan Liquor Control Commission and the Three-Tier System
Michigan’s Government-Mandated Beer Contracts: Harder to Escape Than Marriage?
New law protects government-mandated “wholesaler monopoly”
Michigan Capitol Confidential is the news source produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Michigan Capitol Confidential reports with a free-market news perspective.