“This is a tax on the poor – a sin tax”
Newspaper columnist Ian O’Doherty on the introduction of minimum alcohol pricing rules as a public health measure to curb binge drinking #TonightVMTV pic.twitter.com/hbfHUYJTY4
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Further to alarming new year alcohol price hikes – with the cheapest can of beer now €1.70, and a typical bottle of wine no less than €7.40 and a bottle of spirits at least €20.70 – Ian O’Doherty makes a sound case for reasonably-priced hooch in a nanny state off her meds.
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Ian O’Doherty’s still alive? He always reminds me of the 1990s. Sad little man.
He’s channeling “Secrets” era Gerry Ryan with that hairdo so the 90’s jibe is accurate.
He can channel any large rusty old wreck that sank years ago through those two chins to be fair.
Amazing that they can interfere in the market on alcohol but not rents.
FF and FG voters drink the expensive stuff and collect their rent in cash from the ten or twelve foreign nationals they have in their pokey 2 bed apartments, you know the ones that if they had a crying chair it’d have a queue to sit in it.
Minimum unit rents – floor for price per sqm. I can see it now. Inflation linked of course
Amazing Nigel? Not at all, 100% completely expected.
They are not even pretending to ring fence the money used this time, not that ‘ring fencing’ means anything more than ‘leaving it there for a bit then spending it on the horse racing or greyhound industry’.
They could not give a fupp about people’s health, how about a tax on premium alcohols? Would that work? Any bottle of wine over 50 quid is doubled in price – hey, if you can afford 50 why not 100?
But no, they subscribe to the belief that if you are poor it is because you deserve to be and hence deserve as much hardship as possible.
Yeah, I’m not really amazed at all.
FFG landlords and publicans making policy. If it’s no cheaper to drink at home, you’ll go to the pub and spend your rent money there instead. Win/Win!
Glaring anomoly seen lurking in Leinster house again, thought to be multiplying by consent.
Donnelly the other day said:
“ This measure is designed to reduce serious illness and death from alcohol consumption and to REDUCE the pressure on our health services from alcohol related conditions”
That’s our job now. Not to be burdens on the state.
#ForTheParty
Or not to be a burden on society. Whichever you think is most important.
Sure ok.
Euthanasia for oldies then?
I hear ya the Logans Run vibe your putting down Niall
Or Soylent Green perhaps?
Nom
That anybody who has a drinking problem is seen as a burden says it all about the attitude of our worsers towards the ill and helpless.
Clearly we need genuine left wing politicians to get in there, fund health care, housing, social welfare and tax the corporations and billionaires.
+1
Micko, next time just say:
”Stephen Donnelly said derp derp derp derp de derpy derp derp derp derp”
Because it really doesn’t matter what he says, his word is worth about 2 dog turds and some 6 month old cat litter.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he has been onto to Mary Lou about joining SF at this stage, hell if he thought the National Party were in with a shot he’d probably be onto them as well.
LOL!
Tru dat
And they wonder why they are going to be decimated in the next GE. They are despicable. They are craven. And they are finished. They have shat on our goodwill for far too long.
Some mistake surely. Aren’t those pictures of a sweaty white man with tiered chins who could be in better shape taken from Operation Transformation last night instead of a paid placement for alcohol in a current affairs programme?
O’Doherty is a dose at the best of times, but agree with him on this one.
It’s not even a tax. It’s pure extra profit margin for our hard pressed super market chains & of course to try & put some bums back on the seats of the vintner’s federation membership. There have been some studies linking hikes in alcohol prices to increases in cheap(er) drug / substance abuse as a point of info. The office licenses & supermarkets in Newry will be stacking ’em high & selling them fast. Actually surprised that this doesn’t contravene EU competition law & been challenged but what do I know.
It has nothing to do with competition law. All companies must follow the same rules and none is at an advantage or disadvantage in the market.
Supermarkets were selling off the cheap low-quality beers at discounted prices before the new law came in so their approach seems to be to stop selling things like dutch gold. I can’t get too upset about that.
Our prayers have been answered by the sky God – Prazsky.
Cheers, to the Gods!
Supermarkets were selling dutch gold to folk who couldn’t afford anything else when they wanted a tipple or more. All this does is deny the poorest of a bit of light/heavy relief. If the tax were on expensive whine,,,, no that would never happen. I guess you can afford better booze than our impoverished fellow citizens, I know that I can though I’m still able to see the inequity of it.
Not to mention €15 for a pack of 20. I’m going to spend my drink money on brazzers and bookies.
Lidl were doing 24 cans for 13 euro over Christmas, my spare bedroom looks like a pubs store room
I for one am glad that my grocery shop won’t be subsidising below cost alcohol any more.