PRSmith wrote:
The corporate veil does not protect one from criminal
actions. If selling alcohol to minors isn't punishable as a
crime, everywhere, it ought to be. The same goes for selling
cigarettes to minors. A 30 day mandatory jail sentence for
selling tobacco to minors, I imagine, would make the store
clerks think twice before selling such substances to minors.
I don't disagree with that, Mike, but how do you know if
they're minors? If they have IDs, who is the clerk to refuse
the sale?
There are means for detecting fraudulent ID's. If the sale is
questionable it should be refused. The sale of alcohol to minors
-- who probably drove up in a car -- is inexcusable. If a liquor
store is not diligent enough to have some means of checking the
validity of a person's identification, then they are guilty of
negligence and should be prosecuted.
Here are several companies who sell such equipment:
Yes mandate it. Who do you think pays for the government imposed
cost
of doing business .
Mandated air-bags added about 3 grand to the price of a vehicle.

Too bad they didn't have mandated intelligence tests before your
parents were allowed to procreate ...