This is Devon --
BECAUSE Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding feast, I will never believe that alcoholic beverages are intrinsically evil, even though I also believe that alcohol abuse is a serious problem.
It is regrettable that Kevin Roche (Your Say, February 27) has failed to express any interest in entering into a dialogue with moderate drinkers to find a just solution to the alcohol abuse situation.
Our problem is that punitive taxation of beer is neither effective nor just and we will almost certainly be hammered again on budget day, March 20, so we only have a couple of weeks to write to our MPs before it is too late.
In the past four years, MPs have raised the tax on beer by over 40 per cent; we now pay ten times more tax on beer than the Germans; and Finland is the only country in Europe where drinkers are punished more.
B J TOOLAN
Peverell Reported by This is 19 hours ago.
BECAUSE Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding feast, I will never believe that alcoholic beverages are intrinsically evil, even though I also believe that alcohol abuse is a serious problem.
It is regrettable that Kevin Roche (Your Say, February 27) has failed to express any interest in entering into a dialogue with moderate drinkers to find a just solution to the alcohol abuse situation.
Our problem is that punitive taxation of beer is neither effective nor just and we will almost certainly be hammered again on budget day, March 20, so we only have a couple of weeks to write to our MPs before it is too late.
In the past four years, MPs have raised the tax on beer by over 40 per cent; we now pay ten times more tax on beer than the Germans; and Finland is the only country in Europe where drinkers are punished more.
B J TOOLAN
Peverell Reported by This is 19 hours ago.