BC Continues To Find New Ways
If $14 for a six-pack isn’t bad enough, they also slap a tax on your beer when you drink it in a restaurant. Welcome to the land of creative taxation.
So not to be outdone by New York, Vancouver is looking to new and improved ways of taxes the living sh*t out of us.
The trick is to tax under the guise of “Health Costs”.
RAISE BOOZE TAX, B.C. HEALTH OFFICE URGES – National Post
Vancouver Residents of British Columbia are chugging back more alcohol these days, according to a new study by provincial health officer Perry Kendall, who is calling for a new tax on the intoxicant. Per capita alcohol consumption in the province has increased 8% since 2002, the study found. The rapid increase in the number of liquor stores has likely contributed to a rise in consumption and revenues, and also to an increase in alcohol-related health problems, the B.C. health officer’s report says. Dr. Kendall is recommending an extra tax on drinks with high alcohol content as a means of combatting the increase.
photo credit: Ben Harris-Roxas
December 17th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Great picture.
Is that the taster rack at Yaletown Brew Pub ?
December 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am
BC needs another Bill Vanderzalm. Oh for the good ol’ days when a politician would campaign on lowering the price of beer and winning a crushing majority.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Governments, aided and abetted by all the do-gooder social engineers, are driving taxpayers to open revolt. It happened recently in Calgary when people had enough of the property tax increases that were wasted on pedestrian overpasses that were works of art and gyms for city employees in city hall. All imposed by a ‘progressive’ city council that seems hell bent on emulating the moronic expenditures of the Toronto city council.
For my part, when they instituted a smoking ban in bars, I quit going. Same thing with restaurants. It’s not my pocketbook that takes the hit. It is the the owners of these establishments that lose the income.
Alberta tried to tax cigarettes out of existence. Now I buy them from an illegal source at half the price and, if they shut him down, I have three more sources. At some point, perhaps, government bureaucrats will realize that their social engineering schemes are growing increasingly counter productive and people like me won’t continue to shake our heads and take it. And, the more they try to squeeze me into their little ultra-Utopian touchy-feely world, the more I will find ways around it, usually in a way that deprives them of tax revenue and saves me money.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Perry Kendall is British and should take his UK Nanny-Statism and shove it up his arse.
They already ruined there own little piece of Eurabia, so sod off and leave Canada alone.