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04-05-2008, 03:59 PM | #31 | ||
Barra Turbo > V8
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Pure profiteering IMO, as others have said it is something the govt know that people will purchase (like fuel) so they see it as a 'constant' form of revenue just like fuel is and also speeding tickets and stuff like that they know we have to use our cars and there will always be revenue from such things.
I dont drink a heap i mighty buy a carton of beer once every fortnight. But i do need my car though : . BTW BWS down the road has JB cans for $86 : Tooheys Extra Dry for me $35
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04-05-2008, 04:07 PM | #32 | ||
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I bought 4 cans of Johnny Walker last night for $11.70, and whilst I was there I seen the price of cruisers. Instead of 8 for $20, they were 7 for $20 now. Can't see that having much of an effect.
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04-05-2008, 04:20 PM | #33 | |||
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04-05-2008, 04:21 PM | #34 | ||
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Just sent an e-mail will be intereting to see the reply, i just had a general :
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04-05-2008, 04:26 PM | #35 | ||
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What are you doing drinking JD anyway?
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04-05-2008, 05:10 PM | #36 | ||
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Stupid bit is it will be cheaper for the young one's to buy a bottle now and really be able to binge. And where as before they would have their own can or stubby they will be passing a bottle around so drink spiking will be on the up also. I think it is just a bull shyte scheme for more tax
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04-05-2008, 05:13 PM | #37 | ||
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Place a tax to solve Binge drinking
Add money to Goverment who's fighting to curb inflation etc. Corrupt is putting it nicely. |
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04-05-2008, 05:28 PM | #38 | ||
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so you think alcahol is expensive took the wife out for tea last sunday night and ordered a jug of coke with no ice the bargirl then emptied a 1.25 bottle of coke into a jug handed it to me and said that will be $9.50 thank's well after i picked myself up of the floor i paid her and that was the last drink i bought in that pub
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04-05-2008, 05:42 PM | #39 | ||
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Does anyone else think this hike is more klikely to push people to other methods of mindaltering substances??
Now i am not a drug taker but i have friends that are and its now becoming better value to go get a hit.. I used to average $120-$150 a night when i went out including taxi's.. Last night it cost me over $200.. Absolutely rediculous.. I believe this is only going to profit Dealers and the Government.. Apparently of all the revenues raised from the tax hike the government is only going to put $1mill towards "increasing awareness".. What a load of bull.. That just means we will see more of those useless tv ads.. Seriously who voted for this fool??? Cheers, Nik
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04-05-2008, 06:03 PM | #40 | ||
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One day we'll learn from the past?... Or maybe NOT?
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04-05-2008, 06:15 PM | #41 | ||
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Come to Singapore you can pay $33 (aussie) for a jug of local brew. $42 for a bottle of Jim Beam, Johnny, Smirnoff. Its not cheap to drink here.
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04-05-2008, 06:16 PM | #42 | ||
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haha this wont do anything. When i was 15 and 16 we never had 60 bucks a weekend to buy a slab of mixed drinks so u would get either a straight bottle or if ur really desperate a goonie. Mixes were for special occasions!
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04-05-2008, 06:17 PM | #43 | ||
they call me Tibbo
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**time to clean out the old bong**
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04-05-2008, 06:20 PM | #44 | |||
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04-05-2008, 06:44 PM | #45 | ||
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Repeat after me
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04-05-2008, 06:46 PM | #46 | |||
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04-05-2008, 06:51 PM | #47 | ||
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hello drug problem ,this is gunna help sweet f a . little pill 1 drink and they are crazy ! it is by no means the volume they drink. though it is for some .the people and not just the young are drug crazy where i live and they earn a motza so price increases do nothing
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04-05-2008, 06:53 PM | #48 | ||
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I second the "home brew".
I've been doing it for nearly two years and loving it! Taste a load better at a faction of the price! |
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04-05-2008, 07:31 PM | #49 | ||
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they can't put a tax on drugs, all its gonna do is drive kids from booze to weed or E, or ice...good one Krudd
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04-05-2008, 07:32 PM | #50 | ||
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its gotten to the point that a line of coke and a couple of pills is cheaper then a night on the grog, but atleast binge will become less of a problem.
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04-05-2008, 07:40 PM | #51 | |||
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04-05-2008, 07:55 PM | #52 | ||
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i know they try but dont sell it to the girl / boy wobbleing to the bar or whatever you know what im saying .cause it is against the law to be intoxicated in public but its the pubs profit gone if they say no. but no patrons at that price ,so lose business anyway .gunna dig out the old still again beyond thunderdome style .....
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04-05-2008, 08:49 PM | #53 | ||
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I can drink alot (due to my size and tolerance of alcohol) but I do not. When I go out on the town its cheaper for my mates to do coke and pills than it is for me on the alcohol.
I went to the bottle o for some beer and noticed how rude people were yelling at the staff for the price of RTD and calling them f*wits because of the cost. $34 for Bundy OP, $25 for 6 pack of beam white, $24 for a 4 pack of beam black. Sure the message is getting through to the youth but what about the rest of the population? Considering for ~$34 I can get a 750mL bottle of Bourbon and a couple of litres of Pepsi. A whole lot cheaper than RTDs.
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04-05-2008, 08:56 PM | #54 | ||
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They came out saying they were raising taxes to reduce binge drinking, but at the same time the new tax would raise an extra $50 million dollars a year. Huh? If it was going to reduce drinking wouldn't it raise $0 extra per year?
Less than 6 months in and Rudd is really turning in to a de-facto babysitter. |
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04-05-2008, 09:26 PM | #55 | ||
Bring back Ambrose!
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No one has thought of how expensive cans will now be at bigs events like BDO, Indy, F1 or the V8SC's. You will be paying way over $10 a can for any spirit now.
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04-05-2008, 09:37 PM | #56 | ||
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kids will turn to drugs instead.
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04-05-2008, 09:43 PM | #57 | |||
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04-05-2008, 09:54 PM | #58 | ||
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Local safeway liquor outlet has a sign that states that they are intending not to sell pre mixed alcohol in the very near future.
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04-05-2008, 09:58 PM | #59 | ||
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I dont drink much but now i feel discriminated against that i cant drink mine out of a can . I dont drink beer never have used to be able to stretch the budget to $14 for a six pack of cougars then they went to about $18 now there bloody $23 you can buy a carton of beer for about $30 hey?
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04-05-2008, 10:02 PM | #60 | ||
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this is all fkkkkd.
This gov't really needs to get a reality check. everyone is just going to go the straight s#It and get even more hammered than if they were drinking premixed, because it is cheaper. There are a few things going around like strongbows (excuse spelling) but they are apple cider that taste just like cruisers. But yeah they have tackled it from the wrong direction. |
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