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‘It’s bizarre’: Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year-olds to be able to serve alcohol

Author:     Alex Henderson
Source:     AlterNet
Publication Date:     July 31, 2023
 Link: ‘It’s bizarre’: Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year-olds to be able to serve alcohol
Stephan:  

Can you believe this? “…some GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin favor lowering the age for legally serving alcohol to 14.” When I read that, what I read was, horny Republican men want to allow 14 year old girls to be barmaids serving alcohol, so they can be tempted to drink some, be groomed and be vulnerable sexually. Would you let your 14-year-old daughter work in a bar? One of the saddest trends happening in America, in my opinion, is that the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt has become the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan.

The kind of bar Wisconsin Republicans would like children to be able to work in. Credit: Creative Commons

Before President Ronald Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 into law, the drinking age varied from state to state in the U.S. Some states allowed minors to legally purchase alcohol at 18, but Reagan and members of Congress agreed that 21 should become the national standard.

What still varies from state to state is how old one needs to be legally serve alcohol. Some states allow minors to serve alcohol in restaurants even though they can’t legally purchase it.

The Guardian’s Wilfred Chan reports that some GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin favor lowering the age for legally serving alcohol to 14.

“Wisconsin is just one of a growing number of states where predominantly Republican lawmakers are making quiet moves to roll back the alcohol service age, so that kids who can’t legally buy alcohol — or in Wisconsin’s case, even drive a car — would be allowed to serve hard drinks to customers at bars […]

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