Wisconsin to lower drinking age to 19?

[warriorchick]

That will help recruiting.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/08/republican-lawmakers-bill-would-lower-drinking-age-19-wisconsin/845245001/

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

They've been talking about doing since I was student. 
A for effort!

[tower912]

I am in favor of it.    You can vote, get married, have a job, move out of the house, go to war, buy cigarettes, go to a casino when you are 19-20, but you can't have a legal drink.   21 has always struck me as a bad law.   

[muwarrior69]

OK, but make sure they can't get their driver license until 21.

[Galway Eagle]

This'll also help tourism!

OK, but make sure they can't get their driver license until 21.

Why?

[jesmu84]

Now that's one way to increase voter turnout

[Babybluejeans]

I am in favor of it.    You can vote, get married, have a job, move out of the house, go to war, buy cigarettes, go to a casino when you are 19-20, but you can't have a legal drink.   21 has always struck me as a bad law.

100%

[GGGG]

"(T)he drinking age would only drop to 19 if Wisconsin would not lose its federal highway money. Current federal law, passed in 1984, says any state with a drinking age lower than 21 can lose 8 percent of federal highway funding."

Not happening.

[Galway Eagle]

"(T)he drinking age would only drop to 19 if Wisconsin would not lose its federal highway money. Current federal law, passed in 1984, says any state with a drinking age lower than 21 can lose 8 percent of federal highway funding."

Not happening.

Is it just me or is it strange states are able to legalize drugs easier than lowering the drinking age? Thanks a lot Reagan

[WI inferiority Complexes]

NM.

[GB Warrior]

I'm only in support of this if they attach a rider to make it mandatory that all toddlers must be NRA members and own hunting rifles.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I am very pro-lowering the drinking age. Get em started younger and learning how to drink more responsibly. Also take some of the "forbidden fruit" angle out of college drinking.

[warriorchick]

I am very pro-lowering the drinking age. Get em started younger and learning how to drink more responsibly. Also take some of the "forbidden fruit" angle out of college drinking.

I take it, then, that you full support the Amethyst Initiative:

http://www.theamethystinitiative.org/

[Hards Alumni]

I'm in support of entirely removing the drinking age.  Keeping the age for purchasing at 21.  This would allow people to be eased into alcohol... families could better introduce it as something to enjoy responsibly, rather than getting to college and going bananas and drinking to die.  The reasoning for keeping the purchasing age at 21 would be to limit sales (to some degree), but not remove the ability to have a party. 

Also in support of marijuana legalization.

The introduction of this law, and the one last year regarding breweries makes me really wonder who is in severe political debt to the Tavern League of Wisconsin.

[🏀]

I'm in support of entirely removing the drinking age.  Keeping the age for purchasing at 21.  This would allow people to be eased into alcohol... families could better introduce it as something to enjoy responsibly, rather than getting to college and going bananas and drinking to die.  The reasoning for keeping the purchasing age at 21 would be to limit sales (to some degree), but not remove the ability to have a party. 

Also in support of marijuana legalization.

The introduction of this law, and the one last year regarding breweries makes me really wonder who is in severe political debt to the Tavern League of Wisconsin.

I fully support all of this.

[muwarrior69]

This'll also help tourism!

Why?

I lost my son in a car accident.

[Galway Eagle]

I lost my son in a car accident.

I'm sorry to hear that. Makes sense why your take is that then.

[Herman Cain]

I lost a cousin in a car accident to young punks driving drunk. I think lowering the drinking age would be a mistake.

[jesmu84]

I lost a cousin in a car accident to young punks driving drunk. I think lowering the drinking age would be a mistake.

If bad people are going to commit an illegal act, they'll do so regardless of the law.

So I've been told

[Chili]

I'm in support of entirely removing the drinking age.  Keeping the age for purchasing at 21.  This would allow people to be eased into alcohol... families could better introduce it as something to enjoy responsibly, rather than getting to college and going bananas and drinking to die.  The reasoning for keeping the purchasing age at 21 would be to limit sales (to some degree), but not remove the ability to have a party. 

Also in support of marijuana legalization.

The introduction of this law, and the one last year regarding breweries makes me really wonder who is in severe political debt to the Tavern League of Wisconsin.

This is already the law in WI in that parents can give their children alcohol until they turn 18. Also, if you're spouse is under 21 but you're over, they can consume alcohol you purchase and can be on a Class A premises.

And what is the law about breweries? IMO, anything that helps create local jobs (like what a brewery is) is a net positive. Why inhibit a noble profession especially one with very deep roots in the state?

[jsglow]

I personally think it is a mistake as well.  Now before we go too far, there's no evidence that the Governor supports it.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I take it, then, that you full support the Amethyst Initiative:

http://www.theamethystinitiative.org/

I never fully support something I don't fully understand, but from the mission statement, it seems like something I could get behind.

[mu03eng]

I'm in support of entirely removing the drinking age.  Keeping the age for purchasing at 21.  This would allow people to be eased into alcohol... families could better introduce it as something to enjoy responsibly, rather than getting to college and going bananas and drinking to die.  The reasoning for keeping the purchasing age at 21 would be to limit sales (to some degree), but not remove the ability to have a party. 

Also in support of marijuana legalization.

The introduction of this law, and the one last year regarding breweries makes me really wonder who is in severe political debt to the Tavern League of Wisconsin.

Can not endorse this post enough

[Hards Alumni]

This is already the law in WI in that parents can give their children alcohol until they turn 18. Also, if you're spouse is under 21 but you're over, they can consume alcohol you purchase and can be on a Class A premises.

And what is the law about breweries? IMO, anything that helps create local jobs (like what a brewery is) is a net positive. Why inhibit a noble profession especially one with very deep roots in the state?

Close.  Have to be in arms reach of the child.  Meaning you can't buy your kid a bunch of booze and then let him throw a party.  If you're in a bar and want to getbyour kid a drink, they have to be in arms length.  Caveat here is that I got my bartending license nearly 20 years ago, and haven't renewed it in 15.

The brewery law was going to prohibit sales at the brewery.  Luckily it got shot down quickly enough.

[Spotcheck Billy]

If bad people are going to commit an illegal act, they'll do so regardless of the law.

So I've been told

1 aspect to remember, if the drinking age stays 21 in IL we're back to the bloody borders we had before. I remember seeing bands at clubs when there were 50-100 sailors from Great Lakes auditioning for drunk-of-the-day.