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  I much appreciate and prefer the route taken by Gordon's and others in the face of a tax hike. That of reducing the alcohol by volume. But...there's the rub. It is not either alcohol or drinking that is at the bottom of all this. It is that which drives people to inebriation, to senselessness and to go the way of the Lotus Eaters into un-living. Life, it seems, has become a feast o'er-laden with salt. What lends savour to the repast of reality to most is awarded in over-abundance to the poorest amongst us and their least nibble of life's joys drives them to slake their thirst and to forget.
  There is a deep cruelty in the nuance that divides little-hope from hopelessness, that replaces yielding for yearning.
  
  Let us be ever mindful, "Taxes are good."

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