barryqwalsh
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Stay away from my scotch, liberal douchebag commies.
Tax smokes all you want though.
AUSTRALIAN drinkers have spent $4.5 billion in "alcopop" taxes that have failed to curb teen binge drinking.
A federally-funded study to be released today reveals the tax has not dinted the number of teenagers and young people with alcohol-related injuries.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd slapped a 70 per cent tax increase on pre-mixed drinks - dubbed "alcopops" - in 2008 to try to curb binge drinking.
But a new University of Queensland analysis of 87,665 alcohol-related visits to hospital emergency departments over three years has found the tax made no difference.
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The above article claims the policy has not reduced alcohol-related issues with young people. That may be so, but look the revenue raised.
If Australia, with 24 million people can raise that much, how much could a similar tax in the US, population over300 million, raise?
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