Posted on 10/28/2015 4:24:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Washington, D.C. leads the nation with the highest per capita cost of excessive drinking, according to a new study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Researchers measured 26 cost components to estimate the total cost imposed by excessive alcohol consumption in 2010 for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
They found that the total cost of of excessive drinking hit $1,526 per capita in D.C.—higher than any of the 50 states. The per capita cost to government of excessive drinking in Washington, D.C., was $619, or 87 cents for every drink poured in the nation’s capital. …
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When Boehner leaves the numbers will go down.
Having Wilbur Mills as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Teddy Kennedy in the Senate was not without its costs.
‘Excessive Drinking’ ,well they all work for government so there’s nothing else to do
What does Obama’s excessive pot smoking induced legislation and bad deals cost us per capita.
Typical government screw up of the data.
What this survey really shows is that DC is the lead cause of excessive drinking by the rest of the nation.
If I had done to America what much of the political establishment in D.C. has done, I’d need a few drinks on a regular basis, too.
Dining with all those lobbyists every night really runs up a tab.
I have long suspected that liquor is the common denominator in all of the Beltway’s corruptions. Combined with money, power and sex, consciences melt.
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