Prohibition-Era alcohol laws need updating

In the commentary “revamping alcohol Laws”, the author is discussing the problems with the current prohibition-era alcohol laws. He makes a good point saying that by raising the alcohol tax will not generate revenue or create jobs because in actuality, this will just cause less people to buy alcohol, based upon the common principle of supply and demand. If the price of the good goes up, the demand for it will go down, therefor the higher tax will actually do the opposite and decrease revenues. The author also gives more reasons why the higher tax is detrimental. He believes that the higher alcohol tax will damage local economies by burdening small businesses and customers who are already in financial trouble because of the recession. His point that over 90 percent of alcohol taxing attempts have failed is very persuasive because we have to learn from our past and find new ways to solve our problems. He gives an even better argument when he negates what a previous writer had stated. Some believe that allowing liquor sales on Sunday would just spread the 6 day sales across a 7 day period. However Cressy, the author of this commentary, gives clear facts thats every single state that has passed modernized alcohol laws has seen a great increase in revenue by selling on Sundays. The fact that the has facts to back up his arguments are very persuasive. By referring at the end of his letter to the laws as “prohibition-era” it gives the feeling to the readers that we indeed seem to be out-dated. We update all of our other laws, why have we still yet to update the laws from an era that was quite a long time ago. I believe that the author is intending to reach people who support the current laws and try to show how allowing liquor sales on Sunday is actually beneficial to everyone and can stimulate the economy. He is probably trying to reach policy makers and politicians as well to see that they can lower the taxes and get a better result another way. The author, Peter H. Cressy, is actually very reliable in his letter because he is the President of the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. and has a great expertise in the area. The fact that he has this title gives him some credibility and believability when readers see that he actually has reasons behind his opinions.