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...The passive drinking concept is borrowed from "passive smoking". It is accepted almost everywhere that damage from passive smoking is real, and measures to curb it - taxing cigarettes heavily and banning smoking in public places, for example - have wide public support. Can a similar concept be applied to alcohol? And can the problem of passive drinking become as widely accepted as passive smoking, as hoped for by the World Health Organization, which last year began drafting a global plan to tackle alcohol abuse?
Tackling passive drinking will be an interesting experiment in social engineering. According to Donaldson, the way to do it is to raise the price of alcohol and limit its availability, however much resentment this may cause among the drinking classes. Donaldson proposed that the minimum price of a unit of alcohol (about as much as in half a pint of beer or a small glass of wine) should be raised to 50 pence....
Sin Tax - The last bastion of morons incapable of budgeting well, following a budget, or making good investments.
Sin Tax - The last bastion of morons incapable of budgeting well, following a budget, or making good investments.
LOL! I'm waiting for them to bring the 'graduated tax scheme' to purchases. "This loaf of bread is x % over the norm. For the first $1 you will be taxed at 8%, for every cent over that, taxes will be 100%, c'mon fool, take the government bread!"
Sin Tax - The last bastion of morons incapable of budgeting well, following a budget, or making good investments.
LOL! I'm waiting for them to bring the 'graduated tax scheme' to purchases. "This loaf of bread is x % over the norm. For the first $1 you will be taxed at 8%, for every cent over that, taxes will be 100%, c'mon fool, take the government bread!"
If they did that I will just start buying EVERYTHING imported, even if it would cost me more, just to say "fuck you" to their excessive taxes.
Sin Tax - The last bastion of morons incapable of budgeting well, following a budget, or making good investments.
LOL! I'm waiting for them to bring the 'graduated tax scheme' to purchases. "This loaf of bread is x % over the norm. For the first $1 you will be taxed at 8%, for every cent over that, taxes will be 100%, c'mon fool, take the government bread!"
If they did that I will just start buying EVERYTHING imported, even if it would cost me more, just to say "fuck you" to their excessive taxes.
Didn't they try to cut out booze once before?
As I recall it lead to huge organized crime.
Didn't they try to cut out booze once before?
As I recall it lead to huge organized crime.
They aren't cutting it out. They'll just tax the Hell out of it. Clinton pulled this same crap when he first took office.
Oh yeah, the middle class gets such the tax breaks from the Democrats. GMAFB. They toss out a bone with one hand while jacking taxes that hurt the middle class the most with the other.
The saddest part is the hacks are too damned blind to see the shell game being played on them.
is passive smoking the same thing as second hand smoke?Next the sugar, then ????
Realities of boozing are tough to swallow - science-in-society - 31 March 2009 - New Scientist
They're calling the rationale 'passive drinking.'
...The passive drinking concept is borrowed from "passive smoking". It is accepted almost everywhere that damage from passive smoking is real, and measures to curb it - taxing cigarettes heavily and banning smoking in public places, for example - have wide public support. Can a similar concept be applied to alcohol? And can the problem of passive drinking become as widely accepted as passive smoking, as hoped for by the World Health Organization, which last year began drafting a global plan to tackle alcohol abuse?
Tackling passive drinking will be an interesting experiment in social engineering. According to Donaldson, the way to do it is to raise the price of alcohol and limit its availability, however much resentment this may cause among the drinking classes. Donaldson proposed that the minimum price of a unit of alcohol (about as much as in half a pint of beer or a small glass of wine) should be raised to 50 pence....
