On April 1, a tax increase on alcohol known as the “beer tax” will come into effect, meaning Canadians may soon pay more for their beverage of choice.
- BedSharkPal ( @BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ) 4•8 months ago
Unpopular opinion - good. It’s a known carcinogen. Add onto that the social issues it can cause and I think it makes some sense to tax it more that other things to bring in those external costs that were being “passed on” to society in the form of healthcare and social services.
- Two2Tango ( @Two2Tango@lemmy.ca ) 3•8 months ago
I hope their goal is to help me quit drinking. In which case it’s great for me, but RIP small craft brewers
- Formes ( @Formes@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
You know what is amazing: They can index taxes to inflation, but they can’t be damned to index minimum wage to the cost of living increase.
- Kichae ( @Kichae@lemmy.ca ) English1•8 months ago
You don’t need to do anything to index percentages of sales prices to inflation, when inflation results in increases in sales prices.
Raising the tax rate is not indexing taxes to anything.
- Phil_in_here ( @Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ) 2•8 months ago
Where else are we supposed to generate tax income? Surely the dry husk of the working class has more to squeeze out of!
- survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 1•8 months ago
I’m mixed on this one.
As a detterrent to drinking, great. Fuck alcohol.
As a serious source of taxation, I hate any sort of tax that disproportionally burdens the poorer members of society.