My Name Is Yon Yonson

From Free-Market.net: The city of Madison, Wisconsin is considering following Illinois' lead and banishing Happy Hour. As Paul Lukas noted back on Old '96, the Badger State has steadily been relinquishing its once-proud claim to be the Drinker's Paradise, but maybe it will take some of the sting out of overpriced drafts that this latest effort is being done in the name of that old scoundrel's refuge, the Level Playing Field:

[Alcohol Licensing Review Committee chairman Ken] Kamp said the ban would level the playing field for all bars, since currently only some bars are restricted from offering drink specials as a condition of their liquor license.

Comments

[Ben]

Wouldn't a better way to level the playing field be to allow ALL bars to offer any drink special they want?

[Mo]

Fortunately, Ben, the City Council prez said the same thing.

[matt]

Seems like "level the playing field" is code for "make operating a business more difficult for everyone insead of just a few select places."

[Call me snake]

Dude, that's a buzzkill.

[Tom Hynes]

One of the guys the newspaper interviewed in the bar at happy hour gave his name as "John Walker"

I am surprised they didn't get a quote from Heywood Jablome.