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Booze now cheaper than bottled water
Yeah right! The so called public health professor, whose comfortable existence no doubt comes from tax extracted from the working population, has acheived this headline by comparing apples with oranges.
To wit
A "standard drink" is one which contains 10g of alcohol - there is little to no alcohol in bottled water or milk so this comparison is nonsensical. Just a way of creating shock horror headlines.
This fellow who has job security and no doubt a nice salary thinks that the hoi polloi who do real work, digging in the mines or stacking the shelves at the warehouse shouldn't be allowed to have the pleasure of a glass or two of wine or a bottle of beer and that the GOVERNMENT should stop them by making it too expensive by adding even more TAX to raise the price.
More TAX revenue so that pointy head professors can feed even more deeply at the trough.
The fact the anybody gives this sort of rubbish oxygen seriously annoys me.
The "professor" should be fired as incompetent for these bogus numbers and put to work at minimum wage in a coal yard.
Doing real work might be good for his health.
Booze now cheaper than bottled water
Yeah right! The so called public health professor, whose comfortable existence no doubt comes from tax extracted from the working population, has acheived this headline by comparing apples with oranges.
To wit
Public Health Associate Professor Nick Wilson and fellow researcher Fiona Gunasekara found cask wine readily for sale at 62 cents per standard drink, beer at 64c and bottled wine at 65c.
That was cheaper than bottled water – at 67 cents per 250ml – and not much more than a 250ml glass of milk, at 43 cents.
A "standard drink" is one which contains 10g of alcohol - there is little to no alcohol in bottled water or milk so this comparison is nonsensical. Just a way of creating shock horror headlines.
This fellow who has job security and no doubt a nice salary thinks that the hoi polloi who do real work, digging in the mines or stacking the shelves at the warehouse shouldn't be allowed to have the pleasure of a glass or two of wine or a bottle of beer and that the GOVERNMENT should stop them by making it too expensive by adding even more TAX to raise the price.
More TAX revenue so that pointy head professors can feed even more deeply at the trough.
The fact the anybody gives this sort of rubbish oxygen seriously annoys me.
The "professor" should be fired as incompetent for these bogus numbers and put to work at minimum wage in a coal yard.
Doing real work might be good for his health.