Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year olds to serve alcohol. They can already drink it, after all.

Let’s say you’re a 17-year-old high-school student, working as a waitron at a restaurant, and one of the people at your table orders a beer. I’m not seeing a problem with allowing them to get a beer and take it to the table.

People are jumping on the “14 years old” and “bars” thing. I’m assuming that it’s already legal for 14-year-olds to have jobs. But how many actually do? I suspect that the under-16 employment rate is vanishingly low, unless it’s at a family-owned business. I also suspect that there are few if any minors working as a server at an actual bar, because right now, they can’t serve alcohol.

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