Posted on 01/10/2012 11:39:28 AM PST by reg45
With 38 million Americans involved in binge drinking, it is only a matter of time until the CDC calls for the repeal of the Twenty First Amendment.
hold muh beer...
Never happen, just as pols will never try to ban cigarettes. For the Fed and the states, alcohol and tobacco are cash cows. The only thing stats like the one you cited do is give them an excuse to tax the products even more.
Bad Premise.
1 out of every 10 Americans do not binge drink. There’s a world outside your bar.
That’s about as likely as the much-discussed ban on contraception.
There are far more pressing issues, my FRiend.
How do you know 38 million Americans are involved in binge drinking?
You stated it as if it is a fact.
Can you back up your claim?
All they need to do is repeal Obamacare. And Obama too.
There then would be no reason to binge drink.
The CDC estimates that 38 million US adults binge drink. That means one in six people drink at least four or five alcoholic drinks on a single occasion.
4 or 5 drinks is now a binge? Like hell. 4 or 5 drinks is just a base before the real drinking starts.
binge hangover
I now live in Kentucky. We have a lot of dry counties. One by one, they are all going wet.
“I now live in Kentucky. We have a lot of dry counties. One by one, they are all going wet.”
Good. There’s no excuse whatsoever for a “dry” county in a free society.
If you don’t want to drink, don’t. If you think others shouldn’t, feel free to try to persuade them. As individuals.
I so agree.
After all - who needs free elections with popular votes by citizens making their wishes known?
/sarc
But the sun hurts my eyes. /sarc
Kirbdog
Yeah, I just moved here from Washington state. Every chance I get, I say, “We still have prohibition here? Are you serious? Do you know what it did to this country?”
Interestingly, the dry counties are also the poorest. One of the reasons is that they lose all the alcohol tax revenue to the counties that sell booze.
It’s one reason they are all going moist, followed by wet.
Oh please. Why continue to post this crap.
“After all - who needs free elections with popular votes by citizens making their wishes known?”
So any and all private personal actions should be subject to popular vote? Wow, that would lead to true freedom and liberty, right?
BTW, libertarians are hardly the same as liberals. Modern American conservatism and libertarianism count the will of the individual to be primary and recognize that any other standard eventually leads to collectivism.
“After all - who needs free elections with popular votes by citizens making their wishes known?”
So any and all private personal actions should be subject to popular vote? Wow, that would lead to true freedom and liberty, right?
We are not talking about a private personal action. We are talking about a County and its decision to go wet or dry. Even dry counties have allowances for people to drink. So stay on topic, OK?
BTW, libertarians are hardly the same as liberals. Modern American conservatism and libertarianism count the will of the individual to be primary and recognize that any other standard eventually leads to collectivism.
No need. We have transcended the need to deal with ammendments or the constitution in general. Between the commerce clause abuse and the socialist medicine, all control resides in the fed.
You have hit the nail on the head. The luxury tax is the gift that keeps on giving for the Feds.
You got that right. 4 or 5 beers is a warm up. Over a three hour period,thats nothing.
Now if he’s talking about a Ted Kennedy,5 drinks is how he woke up. Scotch poured over Cornflakes with a Bloody Mary for an eye opener was standard. Those waitress’es aint gonna rape themselves ya know.
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