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Lapid: Steinitz responsible for alcohol taxing
Moran Azulay
Published: 01.07.13, 20:57
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1. Great!
StarightEdge ,   tlv   (07.01.13)
If you can afford to buy cigarettes and alcohol on a regular, you can afford to pay tax. Like everywhere else in the world- it's about time!
2. Alcohol -Lapid
Miron ,   Israel   (07.01.13)
Steinitz adopted the stimulus type economy,bleeding the middle class of its savings which is Bibi's view too. But to say that Steinitz is the one who projected the alcohol tax is a lack of responsability and cheap behaviour.
3. Take away our booze& pornography, what have we got left
tom ,   tel aviv   (07.01.13)
to live for?! To do the miluim and pay taxes? Give me my gin and porn, damn you Lapid!
4. israel is not a jewish state its a moaners state
zionist forever   (07.01.13)
Not enough money for schools Not enough money for single mothers. Cigarettes are to expensive for soldiers. Now they are moaning about the alcohol price increases, unless your an alcoholic its not even going to hit people that hard if beer is not included but no these tax increases mean I have to pay more for my vodka not fair. Lapid trying to blame the alcohol tax increase just shows what an opportunist the man really is. People are annoyed because alcohol is more expensive so Lapids reply it all Yuval Steintz fault not mine.
5. Alcohol
graczek ,   Maryland, USA   (07.01.13)
By all moral and ethical standards, alcoholic beverages should be banned in their entirety, and the penalties for mere possession, much less sales, must be very harsh. This ban can work if there is the political will to enforce it, as there is in the Muslim world, and in all Christian societies that have not backslid.
6. #5 Alcohol ban in Syria really working out!
Rachel ,   US   (07.02.13)
7. #5 i bet you are not jewish
ariel ,   israel   (07.02.13)
During Prohibition there were exemptions for sacramental wine and other religious uses of alcohol. The Eighteenth Amendment, which took effect in 1920, doesn't say anything about those exemptions. It just says that the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the United States is banned. It was federal legislation that exempted religious uses from the laws. When law and religion people talk about Prohibition and exemptions for sacramental wine, they usually say "of course" there were exemptions for sacramental wines. Even Justice David Souter, one of the strictest separationists between church and state to sit on the Supreme Court, wrote that [w]ithout an exemption for sacramental wine, Prohibition may fail the test of religion neutrality and therefore violate free exercise. I had unthinkingly accepted the exemption as well.
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