Best Posts in Thread: Liquor Ban

It may not come down to 'votes' and who does or doesn't. It may come down to lost tax revenue from businesses and the VAT that is being lost. But as usual, they can't see past their noses until it smacks them in the face. Next tax season, when revenues are down considerably, they will realize to late that they were wrong. But of course they will never admit it.

 

I suspect that lifting the liquor ban in Negros Oriental is not even an active issue being thought about, not that the gov is particularly against booze and beer but because the locals (voters) don't really care unless a it gets close to major holidays or large fiestas. They may as well keep the ban in place if no one is complaining. Locals here drink to get drunk but only during certain periods. Expats and tourists do not vote so they are ignored.

 

Correct, GCQ allow more freedoms. My understanding is the national liquor ban has been lifted, and is solely up to the LGUs now to repeal if and when they want.

 

He is a puppet of the Palace in Manila. If they allow it there, then all of a sudden he comes out and says it is okay to do that here. Might as well just stay home. No independence exercised, and Manila is under the MECQ not a GCQ like here.

 

Yes - the 'new normal' will include measures governments wanted to introduce but never had the excuse to do so. I have read for a few years now about the desire to control money by making societies cashless - in this way it is easier to tax and to steal some from your citizens if your feckless policies lead to economic failure. Now it looks like they have their excuse.

 

liquor bans around elections are the rule here, and I think there's a few other countries in the (developing) world that have them. The motive appears to be the same as with the current liquor ban - they're afraid of people doing irrational things under the influence.

And I think they're probably right with that. "responsible" drinking aka knowing when to stop before you do anything stupid isn't a very common skill here. Its just collateral damage that responsibly drinking expats like ourselves are suffering from that now

nice move about the lotto - I wonder why i didnt see any of those yellow boxes burnt to the ground as a result. That lottery business is a thing that surely should stay banned, forever...

 

They banned alcohol sales on the eve of elections last year - the ban actually took place on Mothers' Day and even included restaurants. I am sure this would never happen in most Western countries but they must worry here about alcohol-induced craziness.

But, as you say, overall it really does not make sense - same with stopping the lotto, just a big loss of income that was avoidable (excluding ECQ), but in that case they sold tickets and banned the lotto afterwards! Smart move!

 

I don’t dare go fast enough on this island to warrant that expense. Too many idiot trike pilots, pissed up pedestrians, suicidal cyclists...


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Clearly this is the single most important thing this PNP unit could have done with its time that day.


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