I used to be in favor of privatizing the state liquor monopoly until I realized 2 things:

1. Prices will not drop significantly, for we are all accustomed to the present gouging and the liquor tax itself surely won't be reduced.
2. The newly-privatized profits will go directly and exclusively into the pockets of store owners, not to providing private store employees even the very modest wages and health benefits enjoyed by present WSLCB workers.

Basically, until we smarten up as a country, state, and/or city in terms of income inequality and access to health care, I pretty much have to come down against putting a bunch of people out of living-wage jobs to benefit large retail chains that pay shit and offer unaffordable benefits (if that much.)