New 'Alcopops' tax

So... Since this new tax was introduced what have you done?

Reduced your drinking overall because you like alcopops but don't want to pay more?
Drunk something else, but not less alcohol?
Moved on to mixing your own drinks, with the same level of alcohol overall?
Moved on to mixing your own drinks, with stronger spirits and more alcohol overall?
Given up drinking altogether because you don't like anything but alcopops?

By the way, the government is so sneaky and they somehow managed to get the tax put in place without following the proper legal/constitutional method - which is to have the law pass BOTH houses of parliament.

So, you should have kept, or start keeping ALL receipts for your alcopop drinks. If the senate throws the law out because the opposition and others are against it because it's bloody stupid (I agree with them) then maybe you can claim back all the added tax you paid on your drinks - and then spend it on even more alcopops!

Have drunk more. Higher concentrations. Higher amounts of alcopops. Higher amounts of everything. Ratings are up all over the board. I just don't give a fuck.

You should write a letter to your local ALP pollie and explain how the tax has made you drink more harder stuff.

Still off the booze. But if I was drinking the last thing it would be is alchopops. Even if they were giving them away!

You aren't a 15 year old girl though.

That's who alcopops are targetted at after all...

I'd rather be a martyr for the cause. They can watch me die and rue their actions afterwards with a heavy conscience.

i drink beer so it doesn't effect me at all, although i did read in the paper the other day beer prices will rise by 15%...fuck that...

As John Howard would have said, that's just Un-Australian!

My alcohol intake has actually increased since the introduction of the tax because I mostly drink Wild Turkey and Cola cans which are now $28 for a six pack (that's a good price!)

For that price I'm better off buying a bottle and getting twice as tanked for only a few bucks more.

So basically the government has done nothing but force people to buy more alcohol to get better value for money.

That kind of logic makes me think that the tax has nothing to do with reducing binge drinking and is just away for the government to get more money.

Your nickname is so appropriate for that comment alone.

Excellent work.

i just go to venues where i can buy wine.

went to HQ and paid $10.50 for a smirnoff black... decided fuck that, i'm going to worldsend where i can buy a bottle of wine and get nicely tanked for fuck all!

It was never about anything but that. Surely the people who put together the case for this tax would have forseen that consumers are just going to start buying hard liquor and mix it themselves instead.

A bottle of wine just touches the sides though.

Most of the time I drink a bottle at home...... then go out and get drunk

 


Seriously though.

ok so make that 2 bottles, after drinking a bottle or so at home!

Just drink goon

true story!

I reckon the best way... is the hip flask sneak it in my bag way


Works a treat 

Serves all of you hippies right for voting Labour, really...

Serves them right for drinking girly drinks.

DRINK BEER OR DIE!

hippies drink alcopops?

No, they drink chai tea infused with ginger root and vote Green Labour

Thanks for getting everyone's kids hooked on hard liqour, Jules, you arseclown