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03-29-2008, 10:20 AM
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the Treasury Secretary. Quote:
An Internet campaign to ban Britain's treasury chief from the nation's pubs has struck a chord with the country's harried drinkers.
Earlier this month, treasury chief Alistair Darling raised taxes on cars and cigarettes, but it is his new alcohol duties — which raised the price of a pint of beer — that have gotten Britons' backs up.
So when a pub landlord in Darling's home town of Edinburgh barred the chancellor from his establishment, drinking holes across the country followed suit, posting pictures of the white-haired, bespectacled treasurer above the big red word "barred."
Bar manger Andrew Little at the Utopia pub, which kicked off the campaign, told The Associated Press the poster was put up "tongue-in-cheek," but the sentiment snowballed.
"It looks like we've touched a nerve," Little said.
Hundreds have joined Internet groups devoted to running Darling out of every pub in the country, and establishments from the Tap And Spile in the north England town of Lincoln to the Plough Inn in Finstock, near Oxford, said Darling would not allowed to partake of their booze.
The government has raised taxes on alcohol by 6% above the rate of inflation — which translates to an extra 4 pence (around 8 U.S. cents or 6 euro cents) for a pint of beer, 13 pence (around 26 U.S. cents or 18 euro cents) for a bottle of wine and 55 pence (around US$1.10 or 71 euro cents) a bottle for spirits such as whisky.
The duties are scheduled to rise by another 2% above inflation in each of the next four years.
| Awesome.
Nobody has a better sense of humour than the Brits. http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat...beer-tax_N.htm
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03-29-2008, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Toro  | I'd love to see people do that here to the President and Congress/Governor and state legislators whenever they pull stunts like that, but any establishment that did would be stormed by the FBI REAL quick.
Hell, you can't even hire who you want in this country.
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03-29-2008, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by GunnyL I'd love to see people do that here to the President and Congress/Governor and state legislators whenever they pull stunts like that, but any establishment that did would be stormed by the FBI REAL quick. | I agree 100%, but what exactly do you think the FBI would charge them with?
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03-30-2008, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Paulitics I agree 100%, but what exactly do you think the FBI would charge them with? | Since when did law enforcement in this nation, especially at the Federal level, need an excuse?
What were the actual charges at Ruby Ridge? They send an elite team with snipers after someone for selling weapons illegally and pop his kid and wife?
From my POV, it appears they just make shit up as they go along.
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03-30-2008, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Toro | I hope he's a teetotaller 
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03-30-2008, 02:54 PM
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Rep Power: 9 | | | He's probably got some private club he goes to anyway. And there are these things called liquor stores.
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03-30-2008, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Diuretic I hope he's a teetotaller | Gotta love the Brits.
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03-31-2008, 12:15 PM
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Rep Power: 166 | | | After our local smoking ban a few of the places that were going out of business refused to allow the city council members who voted for the ban into their businesses.
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Originally Posted by Shogun After our local smoking ban a few of the places that were going out of business refused to allow the city council members who voted for the ban into their businesses.
Amen to that. | Kind of on the same note. There was a building in a neighboring town of mine, and in the (darkened) windows were signs that said "THIS BUSINESS WAS DESTROYED BY A BABYSITTER MAYOR" and the like. Had to tip my hat to that lad.
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04-03-2008, 09:21 PM
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