Ontario kann bald Direkt-zu-Verbraucher-Weinimporte aus anderen Provinzen zulassen. Werden hohe Steuern das Programm töten?
https://www.thestar.com/business/ontario-may-soon-allow-direct-to-consumer-wine-imports-from-other-provinces-will-high-taxes/article_5ade0f9d-8fb7-48e4-a7f2-b37bd31b6e54.html
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It’s Canada, so yes high taxes will kill the program. I suspect we’re going to see more of these *legal on paper* type of trade barrier “removals” as eastern premiers begrudgingly fall in line with the larger program here.
Provincial fiefdoms gonna fief.
So long as Ontario [maintains an alcohol deficit](https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publications/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice/vol-40-no-5-6-2020/alcohol-deficit-canadian-government-revenue-societal-costs.html) I support high taxes on the product.
The unfortunate reality is alcohol costs society. Not just in direct and indirect healthcare costs, or drunk driving deaths and injuries, or intimate partner violence, but also general violence, and other ills. So many of these costs are not borne but those who chose to drink but by those nearby.
So, let’s tax alcohol. Let’s regulate alcohol. Let’s compensate (compensate, in the sense that public services are funded, and harms are minimized, not in the financial sense) those that elect not to drink so that they aren’t experiencing the downsides of others consumption. Ontario once had the smallest alcohol deficit in Canada. Then Ford was elected. He cut a bunch of alcohol-related taxes, deprived the government of a bunch of revenues. Has alcohol gotten any cheaper? Nope.
I can’t read the link due to the paywall, but I imagine the “high taxes” is related to the whole VQA thing?
That’s a tricky one. The protectionism made sense when the market was ontario vs foreign wines… should the VQA benefits be extended to all 100% made in canada products too?