Separation of Wine and State: Stop H.R. 5034

Posted by Wine Welfare | Filed under Education, Wine and the World

We always have our ear to the uh…wine street here at Wine Welfare (ahem), so we wanted to bring a lame bill that was recently brought before the U.S. Congress to your attention. It’s a bill that potentially threatens our rights as consumers. House Resolution 5034, if enacted, would give states the ability to pass discriminatory wine shipping bans. This would prohibit your ability as a consumer to purchase wines directly from wineries by direct shipment as you are now doing. Here is the pertinent info you need to fight the power *fists in the air*:

Official site and full bill text here.

If H.R. 5034 passes, it will mean the end of the direct shipment of wine in the states where it is now permitted.

If you’d like more information about HR 5034 you can find regular updates at Join the Movement.

You can also join the thousands who have signed up on STOP HR5034 Facebook page (like that will do anything) or send your thoughts to Washington and write your Congressional representative asking him to vote NO on this issue.

Basically this bill is lame. Wine shipping is already so ridiculously limited in this country without this ink on toilet paper being placed in front of these fat white Congressmen. Why in the world certain states do not allow wine to be shipped to them is beyond me. I always thought the saddest thing about the U.S. is how far behind we are in education, but this is just outrageous.

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