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(Barney Gumble)		Teens that can't buy beer rally for higher beer tax (news.statesmanjournal.com)		159
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klaybc		2003-04-12 10:23:10 PM

la prima posta

Skidnuts		2003-04-12 10:24:00 PM

Their acronym is 'O-CRUD'?

autopr0n		2003-04-12 10:24:07 PM

I don't really think this is all that ironic.

moonman9j9		2003-04-12 10:25:04 PM

Nothing like being a nerd AND proud!

deevo		2003-04-12 10:25:23 PM

We want free beer!

Hello_Kthullu		2003-04-12 10:25:32 PM

Klaybc: You're ghey.. go back to /. with that shiat

Screw beer tax.. we need prohibition back!! Last night I got to deal some sXe justice out to a bunch of drunks..

a1t3r3g0		2003-04-12 10:26:01 PM

I think it's a noble cause that they want to have the tax raised so that it may curb alcohol-related deaths, but come on, they're dressing like hippies!

dohnut		2003-04-12 10:26:06 PM

Why? It'll just cost them that much more to have me buy them a case.

a1t3r3g0		2003-04-12 10:28:06 PM

Well it doesn't sound like they plan on buying it when they turn 21...

RamFanB3TA		2003-04-12 10:28:13 PM

These are gonna be the same kids that become alcoholics when they grow up, then they'll lobby for a lower beer tax. I mean, come on, as soon as they can drink, they'll be mad because they'll have to pay more for it.

Billy_D_Goat		2003-04-12 10:28:16 PM

Ku_No_Ichi		2003-04-12 10:28:38 PM

Many were dressed in tie-dyed shirts and bell-bottom pants, fashionable in the 1970s

Try 60's...
And not 'fashionable'..
Merely a trend..

And why should they care about sin-taxes? After all, their weed is duty-free..

Billy_D_Goat		2003-04-12 10:30:20 PM

OBB		2003-04-12 10:32:19 PM

What a bunch of losers.... kids that want to raise beer taxes, and kids that get loaded and do retarded things...

judasmachine		2003-04-12 10:34:52 PM

Lets give em all guns so they can shoot themselves in the foot whilt they are at it.

Dr. Baird		2003-04-12 10:35:17 PM

Welcome to bizzaro world.

certified bonehead		2003-04-12 10:35:51 PM

I vote for 21 to be the new legal age to drive!
take that ya punks

drcolossus		2003-04-12 10:36:05 PM

No different than poor people voting to raise taxes on the rich

Hornwrecker		2003-04-12 10:37:51 PM

I was lucky; it was still 18, and then they raised it to 21 about 3 weeks after I turned 21. The only bad part about it is that now I am rather old. Oh well, beer for everyone!

Machigai		2003-04-12 10:38:20 PM

Headline should have read: Teenagers that can't LEGALLY buy beer

We all know teenagers are all raging alcoholics these days... If you didn't know that, you haven't been in a public school lately.

judasmachine		2003-04-12 10:38:26 PM

Except for these stupid kids will be drinking someday, and they'll have to pay more for it. So it's like the poor voting to raise taxes for the rich, the day before they hit the lottery and start the next Wal-Mart.

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 10:41:54 PM

Not ironic. Obvious.

I also think alcohol and cigarettes should be taxed more. And religions as well.

soundwave980		2003-04-12 10:43:08 PM

i bet these fools are real popular back at school

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 10:43:19 PM

Newsflash, Judasmachine: some people don't drink.

LesPhilky		2003-04-12 10:44:56 PM

They'll learn in college.

If not, they can join the College Republicans.

Code_Archeologist		2003-04-12 10:46:46 PM

Shut up you little brats. Guiness is already expensive enough with all of you trying to get the government to take more of my money for drinking it.

GEAH		2003-04-12 10:46:47 PM

No worse than low-income liberals lobbying for higher income taxes.

GEAH		2003-04-12 10:47:51 PM

This is quite amusing. Typically pro-tax Fark liberals are all of a sudden against a tax! Oh, wait, that's because it's a tax they will have to pay.

LesPhilky		2003-04-12 10:48:00 PM

If I'm not mistaken, beer is already taxed way too high... more so than cigarettes.

Apparent Nuisance		2003-04-12 10:48:16 PM

Time to put some hefty taxes on videogames. Who needs videogames anyway? Maybe a 50% excise will get more of them off their fat asses.

*gulp...aaahhh*

GEAH		2003-04-12 10:48:56 PM

LesPhilky, College Republicans are against increased taxation. Oh, and be careful when replying to my post. Okay, LesItalics?

judasmachine		2003-04-12 10:49:04 PM

I know this maaannnnn....
But everyone should, calm alot yo happy asses down.

CerebralParsley		2003-04-12 10:49:30 PM

See what we have done? Now all the kids think that the way to solve a problem is through more taxes?

(sip)

Do I smell a Michael Moore documentary in the works?

Apparent Nuisance		2003-04-12 10:49:41 PM

GEAH Trying to bait, are we?

LesPhilky		2003-04-12 10:49:55 PM

LOL... I'm staying away from italics, Geah.

I'm sure the College Republicans are. I was just makin' a joke. The ones at my alma mater were quite uptight, crotchity fellas.

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 10:50:11 PM

Apparent Nuisance:

Yeah, clearly, too much GTA3 is the cause of this:

One night after a party, he was the designated driver and had three drunk friends in his pickup truck. When one friend grabbed the wheel, the truck went into a ditch and hit a tree. The three drunk friends survived. "

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 10:51:37 PM

04-12-03 10:49:04 PM Judasmachine
But everyone should

Why?

theflyingdutchman		2003-04-12 10:51:48 PM

When I was in high school (not that long ago), a bunch of students wanted to get the drinking age lowered or something.

Long story short, we just decided to drink anyway and not care about the law. I would call it civil disobedience. Yes, we were like those famous guys who went to jail for breaking stupid laws.

judasmachine		2003-04-12 10:52:41 PM

ahem.....
first it's a damn joke.
second apparently non-drinkers are uptight.

dorks_		2003-04-12 10:54:24 PM

No, Theflyingdutchman, that would not be like those famouse guys who went to jail for breaking stupid laws, that would be like the guys who went to jail for being stupid and breaking laws. There's a difference.

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 10:54:52 PM

Theflyingdutchman:

Breaking the law by getting drunk is not civil disobedience. Thoreau is spinning in his grave.

Apparent Nuisance		2003-04-12 10:54:56 PM

RoastBeef: How is an increased tax going to prevent people from driving drunk? I just pay a little extra so there is less money for the paramedics to steal while I am unconcious.

judasmachine		2003-04-12 10:55:30 PM

But seriously, I don't drink but on occasion myself. I do it so little I don't care if it cost $0.25 more a pop. And my family has a history of diabetes so I'll prolly have to stop anyway some day.

CerebralParsley		2003-04-12 10:56:31 PM

I think we should tax diabetes...

And my family has a history of it.

judasmachine		2003-04-12 10:58:15 PM

Yeah, so the VA will pay it's own gov's damn tax to provide my dad with his insulin.......... cool, mental image of dog chasing it's own tail.

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 10:58:26 PM

Simple economics. Increase the price, people will buy less given the same budget. Less alcohol=less drunk.

And even if it doesn't, it should still be taxed; some of the money could go to, say woman who get the fark beaten out of them by their drunk husbands.

RoastBeef		2003-04-12 11:00:14 PM

second apparently non-drinkers are uptight.

Actually, I'm the most relaxed and laid-back person you could know.

snooker		2003-04-12 11:00:24 PM

There's nothing worse than a self-righteous over-indoctrinated fundamentalist teenager.

Tourney3p0		2003-04-12 11:00:30 PM

Try 60's...

Try not being wrong when trying to correct someone. Bell bottoms were very fashionable in the 70's. Think disco.

26 year old tax.. 2003 - 26 = 1977.

That's the same year Saturday Night Fever came out. Looks like the article writer was right on.

skinink		2003-04-12 11:00:36 PM

GEAH
"No worse than low-income liberals lobbying for higher income taxes."

Well, if your taxes didn't pay for my baby's welfare money and her mother's food stamps, then how else could I afford my sweet P4 computer with a AIW 9800 AGP card LCD monitor ?

Again thank you for paying for my kid's welfare. Oh, and I have a DSL connection as well. Thanks again !

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