Dear federal government,

I understand that some of your treasury cronies are reviewing the current alcohol excise and are in the throws of recommending that in essence ‘the price of full strength beer should increase by about 5%” and, in March Treasurer Swan will make a decision on whether to carry out this change.

Well unless you want to be treasurer of the local bowls club by this time next year I suggest you listen and listen real close. Stop increasing my FREAKING costs! Since you have come in you have fiddled around with me like I was a small percentage of society that did not matter. I have stood by silently until now, but you touch my freaking beer and I will personally come to Canberra and escort your dopey carcasses to the centre of Lake Burley Griffin where you will be unceremoniously tied to a couple of tally’s full of cement and left to swim with the rest of your political aspirations.

I can live with the price of heavy beer increasing through normal inflationary forces, that is the nature of things. But for some niff nuff with an economics degree who has been watching to many teenage alcohol related violence TV ads to suddenly decide that increasing the heavy beer TAX is the way to go is just moronic.

Leave it be or you will know the wrath of a few million beer drinkers, mark my words!

Regards,

The tide