Ford’s first budget has produced a predictable cry of horror from those who consider themselves more qualified to dictate public taste
Next time you’re slapping your forehead at some unbearably self-righteous moral pronouncement by your local neighbourhood “progressive,” take a moment to consider this: maybe they just can’t help themselves.
The need to preen appears particularly acute among urban dwellers, but I imagine there’s a solid core of rural-based pompous twits out there as well Nothing says 'progressive' like an arbitrary standard that divides the respectable from the riffraff Public prurience towards drinking might sit more comfortably if Western governments hadn’t already abandoned themselves so whole-heartedly to the sin business. They happily collect billions of dollars from lotteries, casinos and tobacco taxes, they encourage the wine industry, and they make cushy deals with monopoly beer retailers.
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