Apparently, a group working to stop binge drinking is making the argument that if a one cent tax is imposed on a glass of beer in North Dakota, binge drinking can be more or less stopped. Yup, increase a ninety-nine cent glass of beer to a dollar, and all of those drunks will go home and play pinochle with their Aunt Mabel.
Or maybe the student activists have been smoking something pretty good to come up with logic like that.
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and now, for the real reason:
"The $1.3 million a year generated by the tax would go for prevention programs, which the state currently spends next to nothing on."
Alright...we can't get money for this...let's make up some bullshit reason to get money, say "it'll help the kids" and watch people fall in line to pay us taxes. Awesome...all in favor?
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"There's a phenomenon economists refer to as narrowly dispersed large benefits versus widely dispersed small costs."
-the double w.
OK, you pay an extra penny AND get some moralizing by a petty bureaucrat, and THEN you'll be ready to go home and play pinochle with your Aunt Mabel.
And drink heavily to overcome the absurdity of it all.
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