As many of you know the town of Taylorsville will vote on Liquor by the Drink on July 29th. As of today, 185 people have already voted. Why is this a bad idea? Why would Taylorsville want more alcohol in Taylorsville.
One of the arguments for LBD is
#1. LBD is needed to generate more tax revenue.
For every one dollar generated in tax revenue from alcohol sales in North Carolina, there is a corresponding expenditure of
$21.42 due to the cost of alcohol related problems. (Alcohol/Drug Council of North Carolina, 1/2/2002)
You know I am not an expert in math but even I can see this just doesn't add up.
Society bears a huge financial burden in increased welfare cost, higher insurance premiums, police and court costs, and cost for
incarceration. This doesn’t even take into account the personal cost of suffering that individuals and families must endure.
Do you think Taylorsville should have LBD?
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2 comments:
I am 100% sure that God and His word teach against alcohol sales and consumption on any level. But when you have seen it destroy the lives of loved ones, you need no other reason. I don't think your pizza will taste any different if you have a beer to go with it. I do know that alcohol can take a good hearted, generous man and turn him in to a verbal spewing, abusive individual that you do not want to be around. A loving individual who would not attend church because there were more "hypocrites" in church on Sunday than anywhere else.
Standing against alcohol because God's Word teaches against it, is the right thing to do. But my question is: do we really want to make something more available that make us worse at being human beings.
I totally agree we should be against it.
I also wish we were just as strongly against many other social ills that seem to be almost acceptable these days. Many of these are talked about in the Bible, about how to treat our fellow man, and so forth.
I believe they are some of the worst sins that are killing us as individuals, families and as a nation. Definitely alcohol is involved in a lot of these situations too.
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