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Originally Posted by jtur88
If in fact there is no economic advantage to bars staying open all night, they would close on their own accord, without a regulation commanding them to do so. If nearly all bars just closed up when staying open would yield diminishing returns, a few could remain open and do a brisk business in whatever trade there is in the late hours. The number of restaurants that are open at 3 am corresponds to what the traffic will bear, with no compelling need for the state to order them closed. Why wouldn't the same principle apply to bars?
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This is what seems to happen in places with 24 hour bars, the ones i've been to at least. A lot of them do close at two, three or four a.m. as business slows down, and some of them stay open until six or seven a.m. Then a few will just not close up at all, or close up at about ten or noon the next day.
I think the bottom line is that it's just a good ol' conservative law from the ol' days that should be changed. It seems to me that it causes a lot more problems than it solves.
Americans call themselves free and talk about "freedom" all the time. Yet they don't acknowledge little things like this that are really limiting our freedoms. There are many other things like this in our culture. The whole "freedom" thing in America is all talk in some ways.
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