Double drink prices, urges doctors -

The Telegraph - UK ^ | March 5, 2004 | Celia Hall

[freeeee]

[SheLion]

The world is out of control. Everyone wants to control everyone else. We are going to destroy ourselves before long.

[Wombat101]

"Cut doctor's salries by Half", says Wombat101.

Aparently some of them are not practicing medicine...

[avg_freeper]

May be we should double the cost of malpractice insurance because there are just too darn many people being harmed by doctors.

[swarthyguy]

Well, it's logical. Since the expected of Tsunami of non smokers, who are free to venture into the clear aired orgasmatronbars, haven't appeared, the only choice left for a bar owner is to raise liquor prices.

I love it.

[Sofa King]

No, the government has no natural right to legislate our life styles.

[realpatriot71]

Great, mind if I tax your internet? How about tripling your gasoline tax?

Alcohol is a vice - like gambling - which the internet and gasoline are niether. But that is besides the point, if taxes are put on internet and gasoline, it's not as if I have a right to buy such items at a "reasonable" price. I don't have to buy, and I don't pay the tax. It's a choice.

[SheLion]

I love it.

Well, all those who hate smokers WILL get hit in the gut just like us. You watch! Then they will REALLY be crying the blues!

[COBOL2Java]

I had a couple pints once and saw those faces in the glass!

[realpatriot71]

Then I guess you approve of removing the laws banning distilling your own spirits?

If you want to make your own whiskey - your private stash - I don't care.

[tjwmason]

Maybe they need to study what happened during American prohibition.

It's already happening. The European Union's one good point (one and only good point) is the free movement of goods throughout its area, this means that it is impossible to stop people bringing alcohol (and also tobacco) back from France (where the tax is far far lower). Revenues at pubs throughout the south of England are dropping sharply, pubs are a part of English heritage originating over 1000 years ago, and excessive alcohol taxation is killing them off. More tax merely means more importing from France, merely means that criminal gangs get involved; as you say, look at prohibition.

[swarthyguy]

And my gloating and schadefreude will be ecstasy.

Even now, it's fun to step into a bar, order a drink, ask for an ashtray, be refused, and leave no tip. Unfair, sure. So what?

It's too bad that all the Rest/Bar associations have caved in to the party line. Their members are the hurting ones.

Tough luck.

[freeeee]

So long as government pays for medical expenses, it will have a justification to dictate even the smallest details of your life, even what you eat.

Just as every aspect of a child's life is mandated by his parents, so is an adult's who is babied by the state. And for the same exact reason.

This is the biggest reason that we cannot afford national health care - it's cost is other people's liberty, and it's not theirs to spend.

[Gabz]

Sheesh.....first I start making my own cigarettes....i guess now I'm going to have to start making my own beer --- because you know they are already working on this nonsense here in the states.

I'm glad we moved to a small farm - I'll start growing my own tobacco and then start adding the beer making crops.......

[firebrand]

I hope they don't do this in New York. I don't think I can afford a $26 martini.

[KarlInOhio]

Yeeeeeeaaaaagh!

That makes me want to drink just so their lips won't touch mine.

[tjwmason]

Yea right, what could the Europeans possible learn from us? CoughCough-noappeasement/federalism/billofrights/abolishslavery/wincoldwar-CoughCough

Not wishing to get in the way of your wonderful flowing attack on Europe (which I too enjoy attacking); but this article is about England, and we beat you on a Bill of Rights (ours is 1689 and was preceeded by Magna Carta back in 1215), abolition of slavery (1833), we don't want or need federalism (that's all about Europeans running our stuff over here), we are not appeasing anybody, and it was Baroness Thatcher who stood proudly alongside President Reagan in winning the Cold War.

[freeeee]

That makes me want to drink just so their lips won't touch mine.

Just wear a nip on a necklace. It wards them off like garlic does vampires.

[tjwmason]

Here is an example of an arisotcratic oligarchy using class warfare to force their puritannical panacea down our throats.

There is nothing aristocratic about these loons. The view of the aristocracy is neatly summarised in the phrase 'as tipsy as a Lord'. Puritanism has always been a disease of the middle orders, both the working class and the aristos love to have fun.

[metesky]

Prof Sir Michael Marmot