All my liberal instincts reject it, it seems like it's punishing the poor for being poor, and I don't like the state manipulating prices anyway. But FWIW one of the consultants who teaches our students is a really strong advocate for minimum pricing; he argues, with stats, that alcohol in England and Wales is cheap to a point that it's anomalous among economically comparable countries, and compared to any other point in history.
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naath
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Date: 2012-11-30 06:44 pm (UTC)