Wine Price Rise On The Way.

Pricing Casks Out Of The Market

Yet another Bullshit Tax.

Here we go again. The wowzers give the Government a chance to smash the low income earners with another tax to help their empty coffers. And they will take it, you can bet on that.

The Australian National Preventative Health Agency has advised the Federal Government that the only way to stop people harming themselves by abusing alcohol is to raise the price of cask wine to a minimum of $52 for 4 litres and $9.75 for the cheapest bottle. You can only guess what that will mean for you favourite tipple. And this is all because approximately .15% of the population die each year due to alcohol abuse and 3.7% end up in hospital. Leaving the other 96% of us to pay the extra tax.

That's like punishing a school full of good kids because a couple of them misbehaved.

High End Drunks, No Cheap Wine Here.

This agency tells them that bottled water is dearer than cheap wine, it might interest them to know that it is dearer than petrol as well. Doesn't that just mean that bottled water is a rip off?

Remember when the Rudd Government increased the tax on premixed drinks? (Rum & Cola, Vodka & Lemon etc.) without consulting the industry or, in fact anyone who knew anything about the purchasing habits of drinkers. This was advised by the same agency, and look how well it worked. The young drinkers just replaced premix, which had an average measurable 4.5% alcohol per volume in each serve, for full strength bottle spirits which they mixed themselves at who knows what levels. And increasingly they have reverted to cheap wine straight from the casks at between 12 and 18% Alcohol per volume. Good work you idiots.

They will drink anything to get drunk.

Don't they understand that people who regularly get smashed on alcohol and drugs don't give a rats arse if the price goes up, or what they drink. The price of hard drugs is astronomical, and yet the people who are bent on abusing them will do anything to get the money as we well know. Price does not stop them.

The people who will suffer are the low income earners and pensioners who enjoy their tipple which is usually  a product from the very end of the market that these geniuses want to attack. All because 4 % of the population have no self control and will find other product to destroy themselves with anyway. Perhaps there will be a return to the Metho in the paper bag days straight from Woollies. Or People will increasingly make their own alcohol. It's not hard you know.

Pensioners will suffer

We currently have the highest alcohol prices and the strictest alcohol distribution rules in Western society and our problems, if you believe the Wowzers, are among the worst. Does this tell you something? Price doesn't help anything it is just a money grab.

Do the hard yards and attack the real problems front on. Identify the 4% and work on them. Close night clubs earlier, coral the trouble makers, you know where they are. 

While you play around at politics treating us all like idiots, the real problem gets worse.