Augmentation de la TVA en UK ?

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Apparently the UK government are about to increase the tax on alcohol very soon. For the third time in 12 months. They've also said they plan to raise it again for the following three years at 2% above the rate of inflation.
Here's an interesting perspective from 1952, presented by the gloriously named Mississippi lawmaker, Noah "Soggy" Sweat Jr. to the US House of Representatives.

"My friends, I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be. You have asked me how I feel about whisky. All right, here is how I feel about whisky: If when you say whisky you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.

But, if when you say whisky you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

[dede]

Jolie tirade...

[pat gva]

Superbe tout en finesse et en humour.

[piazzolla]

Augmentation de la taxe, c'est fait: + 2%

"The UK government increased the tax on alcohol by 2% yesterday, the third increase in 12 months. You will now pay 62p less tax when buying a bottle of wine than for whisky of equivalent alcohol content. You'd think that with a Scottish Prime Minister as well as a Scottish Chancellor, the government would be trying to support one of our nation's last remaining manufacturing industries.

Slainte!
Royal Mile Whiskies
Whisky Magazine's 'Retailer of the Year 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007'"

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