Comments on: Move Over Darling http://blazingsaddle.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/move-over-darling/ Life with the Chalfonts Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:58:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Blazing http://blazingsaddle.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/move-over-darling/#comment-5 Blazing Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:27:24 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-5 Spot on Keith. They are doing nothing to confront the epidemic of binge drinking. As you say it is those who do not partake in those excesses that are being driven from our pubs, which will become as endangered a species as post offices before long. Spot on Keith. They are doing nothing to confront the epidemic of binge drinking. As you say it is those who do not partake in those excesses that are being driven from our pubs, which will become as endangered a species as post offices before long.

]]> By: Keith http://blazingsaddle.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/move-over-darling/#comment-4 Keith Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:12:18 +0000 http://blazingsaddle.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-4 The idea of a high alcohol tax is to stop the teenage binge drinkers, but they have got the money to to pay any price asked from their "benefits" etc. The people who are going to suffer are the old age pensioners who are on a low income and just enjoy a pint or two of beer at the local pub. Why is it that the elderly, the sick, the unemployed, and the homeless always suffer the most at budget time while the rich get richer? The idea of a high alcohol tax is to stop the teenage binge drinkers, but they have got the money to to pay any price asked from their “benefits” etc.

The people who are going to suffer are the old age pensioners who are on a low income and just enjoy a pint or two of beer at the local pub.

Why is it that the elderly, the sick, the unemployed, and the homeless always suffer the most at budget time while the rich get richer?

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