The cartoon is great : )
The article is a load, however. It is illegal for a minor to purchase or consume alcoholic. This is just another tax the middle class scheme, and saying it's for the chillun...
How about a $2 tax per sixpack? Sounds about right to me. I think they'll shut up and take it--they did with cigarettes, after all.
Better yet, a class action suit by MADD or somebody, to demand information about marketing beer to children, you know, the commercials with the lizards and sexy girls, etc. That's clearly selling a product to the underage market. And I'll just BET those executives know it.
And there's a general statistic they can use--one in ten of those underage drinkers is going to be an alcoholic later on in life, just like one in 10 smokers will get lung cancer....How long must society bear the cost of alcoholism? Wonder how many billions we all spend on their medical care, law enforcement, court costs, etc.?
I bet we can get Busch into court to explain the Budweiser commercials...why, it's just like Joe Camel, isn't it?
Sue the beer makers in the aggregate, and win, then there's billions for the lawyers, and about a bucko five for the victims. Then, after winning against the manufacturers in court, start REALLY raising taxes on beer. It could go toward...education...yeah, that's the ticket. Education.