Is this bill a business killer?

The idea that we do away with the private club laws moves into the scanning of drivers licenses. It then went to the idea that this would allow them to store information about those that came to the clubs. The first pool of thought was to store it at the club to have a better idea about the customers. Then it was thought best to store on a more permanent data base. Then there was the idea that the information would be shipped to the government to be stored there. Finally the pool of thought escaladed to the idea that the information would then be passed to other restaurants. The government has now come to the conclusion that there is a limit that needs to be put in place to intervention in private business.

Doug recounted “I have a mechanic that knows me quite well. I show up with my car and they tell me that it will take them about thirty minutes, so I usually walk to a nearby restaurant to get a bite to eat. One day I decided to go to a nice place to eat and so I went to a nice club where I had to purchase a membership.” If this law were into effect, Doug would now be put on the black ball list for being a member of a private club.

Is this bill a business killer!? They are proposing that there is a 5 to 25 cover charge for private clubs in order to discourage “bar hopping.” It seems that legislative had made a considerable effort to make things worse. It always could get worse and it just has. Then why don’t they leave the same person evaluates whether they need to call a cab for someone. We just want know that someone that goes into a bar isn’t underage or inebriated.

Salt Lake Tribune reporter Robert Gehrke wrote that Senator Waddoup’s comments as to the implementation of this law included that when the information was put into the computer it would be feed to a larger source. Senator Waddoups later claimed that this was not true to what he said. Doug wouldn’t blame anyone that thought about what they said the day before want entirely accurate. But the press is blamed way too much for getting a statement wrong.

Caller Jesse voiced that we all need to be accountable for our actions. Kids sneak in and they find a way to drink, why do we need to spend our money on this when there are much more important needs like education. We are trying everything to cut out budget and there are things much more important. Doug agreed that there are some laws that are even counterproductive.