All
governments speak with forked tongues to please their corporate
masters and collect as much ill-gotten revenue as possible.
As
an example of this trade in hypocrisy we might look at Australian
gamblers. The government profits massively from gambling through its
taxes and then makes half-hearted attempts to warn us that gambling
is a big problem or the big pharmaceutical companies who bribe
doctors to prescribe opioids and then we have the health system
saying we have an opioid problem. Why not just send Medicare money
through to Sharp, Stick and Dome directly, buy up their product for
destruction and save a million addictions to start with.
Lately
a three pronged assault has been made on the alcohol industry. First
the impractical 0.05 and lose your licence, secondly all the health
warnings about two standard drinks in four hours is healthy but three
is binge drinking, finally in a bid to get outlets closer to home the
Victorian government has launched a program to help cafes, bars and
school tuckshops to get a liquor licence.
Where
do we go and how do we throw out these morons before they get totally
consumed by taxes on vice.
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