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‘Alcohol is a poison’ that needs honest warning labels: Senator Brazeau
(www.canadianaffairs.news)
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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Labels are fine but increasing the price sounds ridiculous. I don't drink alcohol but I cook with it all the time. I don't need an increase in my grocery bill.
You burn off the alcohol anyway. Just use cheaper extracts or juices.
I've never used extracts before. Do you just reconstitute it? How does it fair in taste? I like making Japanese style sauces as well as french style reductions. I feel like this would be a very niche product outside of the common wines.
Your rationale is I don't want to pay more because I don't want to.
I understand, nobody does want to pay more for things, but the way taxation is structured means every bottle has a net cost to society. That's not a justifiable or defensible position.
And your claim that you just cook with it is highly specious.
The assumptions you're making are out of this world. Your reaching at things past criticalilty.
What the hell are you talking about, can you not connect the dots of a basic conversation?
Alcohol is a net detraction from our society... You don't want it to go up in price because you enjoy the product and want it to be cheap. And you really don't care if your ability to get it cheap means that it harms our society.
I feel like I'm talking to an infant here
I don't think you've considered all of the factors. The thing with alcohol is that it's very cheap and very easy to produce in your own home. What you're suggesting risks the development of black market bootlegging and all of the problems associated with it.
This has been the national conversation on carbon taxes, and assholes won.