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The cynic in my thinks this will its undoing. Some huge fraction of alcohol profits come from a small portion of drinkers. If these G* peptides help these poor
by mullingitover 1y ago
The cynic in my thinks this will its undoing. Some huge fraction of alcohol profits come from a small portion of drinkers. If these G* peptides help these poor people their drinking under control, it would take a huge wrecking ball to the profits, and thus to the taxes. Can't have that.
- quickthrowman 1y agoReduced healthcare, policing, and other costs that are paid for with tax dollars from lower alcohol consumption would almost certainly be a net gain over the piddly tax revenue from alcohol consumption sales.
- mullingitover 1y agoSo you're saying it's also going to harm the revenues of the health care industrial complex and the police state? That's not going to help its case.
- snek_case 1y agoThey're very expensive drugs so it would be one lobby against another. However given that they're so expensive, I would think that broke, uneducated alcoholics just won't have access to them, so those profits are safe...
- c4ptnjack 1y agoI think you over estimate the liqour lobby and underestimate how much of alcohol profits likely come from luxury purchases