Following the POMs on the Price of Alcohol

[Super Nova]

Don't they (the Brits) also have a Coalition with the GREENS in the UK?

I see that Bob Brown is trying to communicate with the Little Green Men on Mars ???

What a dickhead ...........

The coalition in the UK is the Tory's and Demoncrates. The greens are not in it.

The problem they are trying to address is the huge increase in liver disease for people under 50. People are dying from it as young as 30. Big drinking problem here in the UK. I expect the same is occuring in the UK.

They are implementing a minimum price per unit however this is not a tax. If they seek to price it below this level, it is niot clear what will happen.

[Jovial Monk]

This is a bit OT but what the hell.

The Greens are whackjobs, fucking nuts!

This is their Leader addressing some Green do:

http://greensmps.org.au/content/news-st ... en-oration" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some snippets:

Surely some people-like animals have evolved elsewhere. Surely we are not, in this crowded reality of countless other similar planets, the only thinking beings to have turned up. Most unlikely! So why isn't life out there contacting us? Why aren't the intergalactic phones ringing?

Here is one sobering possibility for our isolation: maybe life has often evolved to intelligence on other planets with biospheres and every time that intelligence, when it became able to alter its environment, did so with catastrophic consequences. Maybe we have had many predecessors in the Cosmos but all have brought about their own downfall.

That's why they are not communicating with Earth. They have extincted themselves. They have come and gone. And now it's our turn.

Recently, when I got back to bed at Liffey after ruminating under the stars for hours on this question, Paul enquired, 'did you see a comet?' 'Yes', I replied, 'and it is called 'Global Democracy'.

It may be that the Earth's biosphere cannot tolerate ten billion of us big consuming mammals later this century. Or it may be that, given adroit and agreeable global management, it can. It's up to us.

Once more the answer lies between the poles: between the narrow interests of the mega-rich and a surrender to the nihilist idea that the planet would be better off without us.

It will be global democracy's challenge to find the equator between those poles, and it is that equator which the Greens are best placed to reach

And lastly, eternity. Eternity is for as long as we could be. It means beyond our own experience. It also means 'forever', if there is no inevitable end to life. Let's take the idea of eternity and make it our own business.

It’s all very florid and over blown rhetoric.

[IQS.RLOW]

Yet your favorite party has been in bed with them for years.

Why would you support a party that does sordid back room deals for so long with such weirdos?

..or did you not realize that your beloved party was a piece of shit growing smellier and needed the fringe dwellers to keep them in the running.

Unfortunately your stink has permeated the voting public and the result is nearly unanimous...welcome to minor party status

[boxy]

No, you are just wanting to tax it because according to you taxing alcohol has little impact on behavior but taxing carbon will make everyone change their habits

Oh dear. Someone is paddling out into deep water.

LOL. Taxing alcohol=/=taxing mined energy.

[IQS.RLOW]

No, you are just wanting to tax it because according to you taxing alcohol has little impact on behavior but taxing carbon will make everyone change their habits

Oh dear. Someone is paddling out into deep water.

LOL. Taxing alcohol=/=taxing mined energy.

Taxing alcohol is a good idea from an economic perspecitve because it has little impact on behaviour

Oh dear. Someone will have to explain how the above statement is absolved from the leftard cheersquad of sin taxes

It's nothing more than a socialist sin tax and you fucking know it...and they dont fucking work. They never have

[boxy]

Non-mined energy?

[IQS.RLOW]

Non-mined energy?

Do you have a point, or an inexplicable ability to explain it?

[boxy]

I think you mean "an inexplicable inability to explain it".

[freediver]

No, you are just wanting to tax it because according to you taxing alcohol has little impact on behavior but taxing carbon will make everyone change their habits

No IQ. One of the great advantages of the carbon tax is that it does not force anyone to do anything.

[IQS.RLOW]

No, you are just wanting to tax it because according to you taxing alcohol has little impact on behavior but taxing carbon will make everyone change their habits

No IQ. One of the great advantages of the carbon tax is that it does not force anyone to do anything.

Like any other tax, it forces the price up. It forces you to pay a higher price

The great disadvantage of a carbon tax is that it won't do anything at all to reduce carbon dioxide, you fucking numpty