God forbid anyone figures out they can easily grow their own weed and give up booze completely.

And it is a hell of a lot easier to make good beer than to grow good weed.

http://www.denverpost.com/2013/02/22/marijuana-the-truth-about-growing-your-own-pot/

for us to go to church. Remember long ago reading that the communist leaders loved that because stupider people needed to be told how to live a good life

So you are right, booze and church are in our future.

...the religion of the masses.

They'll sit on in their boardrooms and mansions, nursing their alcohol, while they watch the majority of the general population slide to self-medicated frustration and slow, gutless anger.
They think they've won when everyone else become emotional animals in the proper cages.

Haele

skyrocket.

The military used to give troops a daily ration of alcohol. And US military practically gave away
booze at the Officer's and NCO clubs. Huge bottles of booze, dirt cheap. Same principle you describe.

It was a serious problem when I visited there just before the USSR fell. I went there with my grandmother and her peace group in 1986. I can't imagine what the rate is there now.

This is from a 2011 WHO report.

25% of all Russian men die before age 55, most due to alcoholism and complications.

When the sanctions are dropped.

Is this a cocktail or consumed separately? I don't know.
We are going to need to know all about drinking vodka now that we
are a Russian client state.

Put bottle in freezer. Remove when you want to drink. Eat a pickle after every shot. Put the bottle back in the freezer when you've forgotten who the president is. Do not put empty bottles in the freezer because there's no point. (Come to think of it, don't worry about putting the bottle back. It'll never happen.)

And never, ever drink without a reason. If you have no reason to drink, drink pivo.

Will skip the pickle after every shot..

grocery shelves.

He even went down to Junior's college and beat him up for a drinking mishap

there are alternatives here in California

Corporations get a tax cut, the owners of the companies make more - they won't cut the price - this is a raise for CEO's and the wealthy, not a commerce bill.

Per CNN:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/16/news/beer-wine-whiskey-tax/index.html


It's unlikely the tax savings will be passed along to the consumer in the form of a price reduction on beer, wine or spirits. Business owners are looking to reinvest the savings.

"Any money we would save we would just invest right back into the company in terms of equipment, and we would hire more people," said Tom Lix, co-owner and founder of Cleveland Whiskey, a distillery employing 15 people that was recently toured by Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, lead sponsor of the amended bill.

Government took in $9.7 billion on liquor excise taxes. So it would be interesting to figure out who put this in and their ties to the liquor lobby. No wonder these schmucks do everything in secret

Got to do something to try and sell the stuff.

Bottle of wine sold for $30. Paraphrasing

Fortified wine, high-alcohol beer, and distilled spirits should be taxed heavily.