Majority of Finns do not support alcohol tax hike
…But you’d never know it from STT’s misleading article title and text…
Finns back alcohol tax hike and more restrictions -Poll [...]Also a moderate rise in alcohol tax receives backing.
Very clever wording there. When I read “Finns back alcohol tax hike” I think “Majority of Finns back alcohol tax hike” but in actuality, even if 1% of Finns backed the alcohol tax hike they could still say, “Finns back alcohol tax hike”. But YLE says…
Just 45 percent called for a hike in the tax on alcohol
I have been following the alcohol tax situation since the very beginning when they began talks about lowering it. The media teaming up with the welfare statists have been doing everything they can to create negativity towards the tax decrease. It never had a chance. The alcohol tax drop has become the scapegoat for every social ill out there, even though they were in full-force well before drop. Twenty years from now we’ll be hearing social workers still blaming this countries social problems on “the alcohol tax decrease of 2004-2007″.
