(Forbes) - The May 2 editorial in Pennsylvania’s Scranton Times Tribune, said it all: “Perdition just a vote away.” The plan by Governor.

Tom Corbett to end the state’s monopoly on wine and spirits sales has triggered hellish prognostications from a constellation of groups who argue that the best way to prevent alcohol abuse is to have the government sell it reluctantly.

“This reckless scheme will put alcohol on every street corner and increase crime,” said a million-dollar ad campaign paid for by the United Food & Commercial Workers,” a union with 3,000 members at risk of losing their monopoly.

“I’m a clinician, not a politician, and I don’t think we should privatize because I think it will work – there will be an increase in alcohol sales,” Deb Beck, the president of the Drug and Alcohol Service Providers of Pennsylvania, ” said at a Senate hearing on the bill