IN RESPONSE: State's ID law is working  Somehow we need to put
common sense into the debate about Indiana's mandatory carding
law.  Virtually everyone who shops for liquor drives an
automobile to get to the store whether it is a grocery, big box
chain, convenience store or liquor store. Driving should involve
having a license on your person and likely in your wallet. And
virtually every customer gets out a wallet for a credit card or
cash.  I've been a package store owner since 1973 and I can tell
you this is a law that is working.  Without mandatory carding,
our clerks carded everyone under some arbitrary age. But judging
age is very subjective and you anger the customers that are
slightly under or over the required legal age, especially if
they are regular customers or look young for their age.
Consequently, clerks can let younger customers slip by, allowing
the system to fail.  How do we know this?  Before the carding
law was implemented, the Indiana State Excise Police did a
statewide survey to check on w