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Old 15-03-2009, 13:03   #12
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Re: Plans for minimum alcohol price

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Originally Posted by Taf View Post
So if there was a minimum price, who would get the extra profit?
I've always felt that tax collect from 'specific' area should be spent in that 'specific' area (not just lumped into the coffers)

So it could be used for:

Extra policing/survellance Sat nights
Clearing up the street on Sun morning
(arresting the drunk & disorderly and getting them to clear the streets on Sun morn)
Investing in non-alchohol rellated activities (free health centre / swimming pool etc on Saturday nights?)

Governments have never felt any obligation to justify taxes - probably because they wont do any of those and just give themselves a jolly good pay rise instead

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