ever supported making government smaller. Privatize. The retail business is not a legit function of govt.

Regardless of whether Virginia's treasury would gain or lose money by the privatization of the state monopoly on wholesale and retail liquor sales, the privatization should move forward.

Selling liquor -- or any consumer product, for that matter -- is not a legitimate function of government.

Virginia should never have been in the liquor business in the first place. Privatizing ABC needs to be done swiftly, as a matter of principle. Those who say "I agree with the plan in principle but..." don't really have principles to begin with.

The General Assembly will do something historic and long overdue by passing a privatization plan. Bring Virginia into the 2010s; don't linger in the 1930s.

to the Commonwealth's income, I favor privatization. So far the Governor has not proven that will be the case. Let's see a realistic business plan. The power point is not that.

The state should shed the liquor business if it hasn't produced a profit. If the state wants to profit from future sales by private liquor sales concerns, then yes, add some taxes, but that shouldn't be to make up previous losses by the state for bad business practices.

Losing jobs and revenue is not a good plan no matter how you look at it.