The American Left is sweating in lust over the idea of taxing people who aren't doing things they want to, it can easily spread here.
Its why their go to response to any "unhealthy" thing is to just over tax it so you can't afford it. They keep getting pushback on soda, but the cigarette one literally traps people in poverty for no reason other than "punish them worse!"
I can attest to that, Wales and scotland have introduced a minimum price per unit on alcohol, not that it bothers me over much, I brew my own, so fuck you Mark Drakeford, and as it happens in voting against in may when the senedd elections happen so fuck you twice now I think on it
The American Left is sweating in lust over the idea of taxing people who aren't doing things they want to, it can easily spread here.
Its why their go to response to any "unhealthy" thing is to just over tax it so you can't afford it. They keep getting pushback on soda, but the cigarette one literally traps people in poverty for no reason other than "punish them worse!"
I can attest to that, Wales and scotland have introduced a minimum price per unit on alcohol, not that it bothers me over much, I brew my own, so fuck you Mark Drakeford, and as it happens in voting against in may when the senedd elections happen so fuck you twice now I think on it