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Scotland becomes first country to enforce a minimum alcohol price
CNN ^ | May 1, 2018 | Meera Senthilingam

Posted on 05/01/2018 11:21:40 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

Liberals never learn. Government price controls never work.


21 posted on 05/01/2018 12:34:17 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: glock rocks

10 milliliters of pure alcohol is one unit.

750ml bottle of 80 proof/40% hooch = 300ml of pure alcohol or 30 units.


22 posted on 05/01/2018 1:31:48 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: C19fan

Certain jurisdictions in Canada (BC and Ontario) have government run liquor boards that essentially do what Scotland does.

For example, wine imported from France that was imported at $1.00 a bottle - the store owner cannot sell it at $10 as he wished but MUST price it at $19.


23 posted on 05/01/2018 2:13:34 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Ohioan

Indeed. Canada also does something similar.


24 posted on 05/01/2018 2:14:09 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: C19fan

Free chips!


25 posted on 05/01/2018 2:30:01 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (A Second Amendment march to deny leftists their First Amendment rights. Turnabout is fair play.)
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To: robroys woman
Yeah, I bet they don’t have a lot of corn there. :)

But they have a lot of potatoes, and thus vodka.

26 posted on 05/01/2018 4:23:39 PM PDT by Backin1998 (It's fun listening to the Liberals these days)
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To: ltc8k6

Good Lord, that’s about as proscriptive as here in Utah!


27 posted on 05/01/2018 10:02:09 PM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: C19fan

I guess they never watched the Untouchables. Good old Robert Stack!


28 posted on 05/01/2018 10:31:49 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: DPMD

Hard to see how this could be a tax, since in the UK excise duty on alcohol is paid by quantity, not price (so same duty on a pint of beer whatever the price). So if this minimum price did have the effect of lowering consumption, it would actually reduce not increase income to the government.


29 posted on 05/02/2018 12:28:00 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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