Posted on 02/02/2005 3:38:25 PM PST by franksolich
Easy access to alcohol unpopular
The populist Progress Party has had surprisingly little public support for their efforts to bring wine and spirits out of the clutches of the state liquor monopoly Vinmonopolet and in to normal shops.
Only 16 percent of those quizzed in a survey carried out by TNS Gallup for TV 2 favored the Progress Party suggestion, and just 31 percent favored making just wine more accessible.
Despite the ongoing investigation into the possible bribery of several Vinmonopolet managers, Norwegians appear to have great faith in the monopoly as an institution.
Only one in five respondents said that they felt the coverage of the accusations had weakened their confidence in the liquor monopoly.
I walk in, they ask, "How are your kids?"
What can one ask for?
It should have read: "wine/liquor AND beer."
One group of alcoholic beverages can be legally sold in supermarkets in NY, while the other can not.
That is why-as in the case of this particular Scandinavian country-you have a problem of sales taxes being drained out of New York state and driven to Vermont through the independent decisions made by discerning liquor connoisseurs.
Wasn't he the media/business magnate-briefly owned the N.Y. Daily News-who took a header off of a pleasure boat?
You gotta be rich to get a buzz in Norway or Iceland, I bought all my hooch at the duty free shop on the way in.
But as a result of joining the EU Denmark lowered their alcohol taxes more toward the German level because people were just bringing in liquor from Germany, and then Sweden followed.
Well, given that Scandinavia is pretty far north, what with the long nights of winter, one assumes there is a severe problem with alcohol there, with or without industrialization.
But surely such high taxes "encourage" "home brewing."
I can tell you that in Norway in the 70's, the tax on hard alcohol was 400%, and the farmers in the middle (grain and corn) belt of Norway often had stills. They make just as fine grain as do the hillmen of North Carolina (where I went to college!) :)
Yeh. He was a former Labour MP and friend of USSR and their minions. He stole all his workers pensions to keep his share price high then mysteriously died at sea.
He did help get permission for Jews to immigrate from the USSR though but he was still a crook who was only succesful in business as long as he was stealing.
From his description, it sounded like a pretty volatile market-as far as the news media were concerned-so I'm not surprised that someone of dubious moral character, like Maxwell or Abe Hirschfeld, would be able to parley his fortune into the successful purchase of a major press organ.
It still amazes me how even seemingly reputable politicians, e.g. David Aitken, Dennis Archer, inter alia, manage to find themselves mired in the thicket of scandal.
Though, he did pen one of the best biographies-to date-of Richard Milhous Nixon.
Its the tax on liquor that makes it mor expensive
Well if you go to Spain in the Summer at tourist places you will see drunk Norwegian. For Norwegian youth this trips are just a long party.
Well the most efficent coal mine in the world is Norwegian and state owned. I dont like state own enterprises either, but it is the truth.
thats the price if you go out. Six pack of 4,5 % beer Tuborg cost 10 dollars
But state monopolies,or state-sponsored private monopolies, such as De Beer's, have this nasty habit of outrageously inflating the price of products that would otherwise be dirt cheap.
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