"Pennsylvania has made attempts to drain this swamp in the past, with alcohol “kiosks” and other innovations; but then as now, state apparatchiks and unionized liquor store employees have united in a modern baptist/bootlegger-style coalition to defeat reform plans.The “Greed Kills” spot boldly defies contemporary production value by mounting a “Babs’ Uvula” -style PSA in which two women recite talking points, but with worse acting — though to be fair to the thesps, Barbara Stanwyck herself would have had a hard time breathing life into dialogue like, “And I heard wine and spirits stores generate hundreds of millions in profit and taxes. It saves us money!”
Those hefty profits are of course what the union is actually trying to protect, but “Greed Kills” makes a pitch that keeping the liquor monopoly prevents a slaughter of the innocents.
“I read the same kind of law in North Carolina is killing one child every week,” says one woman. “It only takes a little bit of greed to kill a child.”"
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