Swarbrick frustrated by Deputy PM not backing alcohol harm minimisation bill
Green Party MP Chlöe Swarbrick says she is frustrated that her bill to ban alcohol sponsorship in sports is not receiving the backing of the government, despite the presence of overwhelming evidence.
Booze has made itself so important to Sport sponsorship that we can’t risk ripping it away because it will damage the ability of Sport to function.
Unless we are prepared to put public money is as a replacement, we get bogged down.
That’s why we need a Vice Tax on business activity whose social damage doesn’t get covered by the taxation they pay!
Gambling, Tobacco & Booze, all of them need the heavy jack boot of the State on their throats at all time!
The Vice tax would be special super tax on top of the total profits made on products that are a blight upon society.
Why should the Gambling Booze Vape Barons peddle their harmful products with the barest of responsibility?
Rather than constantly making it a tax the consumer pays, hit the booze barons with a ring-fenced super tax on their profits margins and put that funding directly into Sport.
That way you fund the Sport but cuts alcohols branding of it.
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Well I think that this wonderful right wing economic management narrative that says wealthier people have more rights to life than poorer people needs to be debated rather than the exceptions.
I agree society feels this way in 2022.
Well I think that this wonderful right wing economic management narrative that says wealthier people have more rights to life than poorer people needs to be debated rather than the exceptions.
The Tobacco industry will supply you with figures showing that the amount of tax paid on ciggies is far in excess of the amount spent on health problems associated with tobacco use.
Not so for the Alcohol industry. I personally would put a tax of $1 per standard drink on all alcohol sold off license. I would ban all alcohol advertising and would use part of the extra tax collected to support participation in sporting cultural and social activities at all levels.
Bring back Moldon . Use to raise tobacco and alcohol tax every budget.
Went to Gemany in the late 80’s One thing I remember. I saw a Grand mother and Gran Daughter have a Stien of beer at the Museum, just one, then get on a tandem bike and rode off.
Came back to New Zealand went to the pub, at 10pm a bell started ringing on the wall , and we were flushed out.
Instantly i realised just how backward we were.
Chloe is right. There, I’ve said it.
But it’s those bloody awful liquor shops out in the suburbs seemingly everywhere run by creeps who would sell their grandmother’s if there was the sniff of a chance of selling a vape on top of a box of Woodies to a 15 year old that need closing down. They are the real scourge!
Woops Robert Muldoon that should say 😉
With you 100% Nathan.
Yeah lets tax everything people enjoy and put them in their place! That way we can all just be lifeless drones together in solidarity with those who can’t afford to have fun! We will own nothing and be “happy”.
Someone needs to tell Chloe if she wants to go further in NZ poltics espousing wowserism is not going to get her there.
Why not?
This socialist goose never saw a tax he didn’t like. Others to pay.
Moolah to be handed out to the bottom feeding bloggers et al. Because they’re worth it…
Socialism is tedious.
Huh??? What about GST brother. The left are not opposed to cutting taxes we just don’t want to leave people behind.
“The Vice tax would be special super tax on top of the total profits made on products that are a blight upon society.”
Frightening stuff. I mean genuinely frightening.
Obviously meat and dairy are a vice too in 2022! I mean think of the climate!
People that subscribe to this sort of infringement on basic freedoms deserve what they get. Who, exactly, are the gatekeepers as to what a “vice” is? Do we get to vote on it? Yeah, didn’t think so.
It would be inappropriate for me not to comment here; I admire Chloe Swarbrick’s tenacity and perspicacity. Her realism is confounding, given that she has to navigate the tracks and tunnels between the debating chamber and the plebian world of clownworld. The referendum bill was, I believe, a little too restrictive but obviously nothing gets past Family First. Since the referendum on cannabis reform, there have been a lot of false starts and conflicting information. Dr Reti introduced a private member’s bill decriminalising cannabis but this was not glamorous enough for our politicians who voted it down and we returned to the alcohol takes all model. Many start-ups were crushed out of business, having to burn their crops and wonder what to do next, as with prospective purveyors of hemp fabric and health and beauty products; hemp got to be the new ragwort-worth nothing but a headache. Personally speaking, as a designer always looking for natural fabrics I was gutted to discover this retrograde, regressive, retarded move to neo-maccarthyism via an abundance of happy-clapping and privacy-invading God botherers who don’t pay tax and rort the system, meant another gruelling epoch of polyester and harvey-wallbangers ad nauseam. Now the All Blacks are losing their rugby games a little of that hubris may start to slip slide…..
“I’m just getting drunk because I can’t get stoned..”
like. thumbs up. high five. I like watching the All Blacks for their nose blowing techniques. hemp jerseys? cdb sponsors? nz could grow the best weed. lol – what a bunch of conservative nonces.
my vice is my own and too hell anyone who tries to intervene… consenting adults is all good in my hood. mind your own business. you can’t regulate my human endocrine system.
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