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Originally Posted by JethroUK
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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The money spent on clearing up the local economies far outweighs the money bought in from alcohol sales, the revenue from alcohol sales is £2billion a year, the cost of alcohol violence, clearing up, nurses, doctors and ambulance staff £4billion a year.