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  I noticed that report about supermarket beer. It shows what a blunt tool tax is, as it is the pubs that will be hurt most by the increased alcohol taxes. It would have been far better to make a more imaginative approach targeting the poison of choice for the binge drinkers such as alcopops and strong lagers. real ales could be left alone because they are more expensive than cheap chemical beer anyway, real ale drinkers tend to be older and more responsible in attitude than the teenage bingers. It would be possible also to place additional levies on alcohol sold for 'outside consumption'.
  
  Pubs are suffering primarily as a result of the economic downturn. If you are having to tighten your belt then what is the first 'spend' to be cut?

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