Jan 17 2010
Leave my beer alone
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
You silly, naive man SJ. Have you still not learned how government works? Raising the alchohol excise allows uncle Kev to claim to be doing something about the monster that is terrorising our youth, without actually having to do any real work (which any programs with a chance of having an impact would require). The real genius of his approach is that he can also profit from this lack of action at the same time.
And people reckon he’s got no idea what he’s doing….
Who voted for this government?
The licensing and excise restrictions are enough to keep this industry a duopoly in most states….now add this and we will never see a competitive market……..
Pieman, I agree with you that this is clever but what small pleasures do us simpletons have left in live….