4. Prohibition failed, but the three-tier system of alcohol distribution introduced in its wake was intended to address the same problem—and largely succeeded. Retail owners still needed licenses, but the big money was in distribution and production, and they no longer cared who got the licenses.
5. The post-1970s changes to zoning have, in effect, returned to city governments a "license law" regime, in which local governments are now consumed by these decisions, to the detriment of everything else they could be doing—and with the same invitation to corruption.
And we still see a similar type of corruption that occurs with state liquor stores.
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