I heard on the radio yesterday that Canadians spend an astonishing 9 BILLION dollars on beer every year.
Did I hear that right? .. because that would be $300 for every man, woman and child in the country ..
Can that possibly be right? .. 9 billion dollars is a huge amount of money ..
Yup .. it's apparently right .. and there's another 9 BILLION dollars that gets spent on other alcoholic beverages ..
Fascinating ..
Funny how alcohol is at the root of so many societal problems, and yet the government continues to hypocritically make a killing off of buried alcohol taxes ..
Anyway ..
If just $100 of this $600 (for every man, woman and child) was redirected to, say, global warming or education or poverty, that would create a windfall of 3 BILLION dollars .. and that's just in Canada!
Add to that $100 'redirected' throughout all of the Western wealthy nations, and you'd easily have 50 BILLION dollars (or so) to spend on more meaningful things ..
I'm sure there are a lot of children in Africa and India who could be fed and educated for 50 BILLION dollars ..
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Addictions are profitable. I wonder how much money is spent on coffee every year, per person? Secretly, the government is profiting from Tim Horton's, I'm sure of it.
It's only 'ok' for the government to make money off a harmful industry because it's legal. When are they going to legalize marijuana and profit from that?
Anna, you're totally right about addictions being (highly) profitable .. I read somewhere (a while ago) that if alcohol had just been discovered, it would likely be treated as a controlled substance ..
Not that I'm against (the moderate use of) alcohol .. but I am against the two-faced-ness of government ..
we are taxed on EVERYTHING, forget just alcohol, income tax alone is pretty lucrative... gas tax... OSAP...now road tolls... cutting costs in education, health care... (and our money is being spent... um. where???)
bah.
... I need a drink
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