Facts About Wet Dry Elections and Alcohol Revenue

The False Hope Of Alcohol Revenue To Solve Government Funding

Assume Priceville gets an Appleby's and a Ruby Tuesdays, which won't happened because it didn't happen on the Highway 67 strip on the other side of the interstate which went into Decatur and went wet in 1984.. There are 750 voters in Priceville. Now assume that a third of them drink, which is 250. Assume that all 250 have three beers a night, three nights a week, which is basically enough to make a third of the town drunk and dangerous on the road driving home, and subject to DUI arrest if caught.....This is 750 beers three times a week, or 2,250 beers a week. Decatur's tax on beer is 4%, their regular sales tax on anything sold in Decatur. Assume a beer sells for a dollar. Now multiply .04 times $2,250 a week. Guess what! The total revenue is only $90 a week according to this example, certainly not enough to even pay overtime for a town policemen to deal with the drunk drivers. If you want to double the $90 and assume its $180 a week...So where is the big revenue from alcohol sales for schools and all the things that have been claimed by the folks pushing for alcohol? The bottom line is that the only people who will make money off alcohol in Priceville are the people from out of town who sell it.

DO YOU WANT TO PUT MORE DRUNK DRIVERS ON THE ROAD IN PRICEVILLE AND SET A BAD EXAMPLE FOR THE KIDS, FOR $90 AWEEK, EVEN FOR $180 A WEEK?

The unseen costs to society are:

1. Broken homes due to alcohol abuse. How many wives are beaten and abused during a drunken rage?

2. How many young children are emotionally wounded due to a drunken father acting irrationally or who physically hurt them?

3. How many families are reduced to poverty due to a alcohol related divorce? A divorced wife forced to enter the work force, and young children grow up weak emotionally due to absent father and a mother struggling to earn money to survive. Young kids have missed opportunities to excel due to a lack of family funds to participate in middle class activities.

4. What are the costs to a person and society because of a DUI? The personal loss include job loss and damages a driver causes due to an alcohol related car wreck?

5. How many people in society will have their vehicle struck by a drunken driver, and they will pay the cost of their car repair due to a lack of insurance of the drunken driver?

Priceville Committee for Positive Family Values
James R. Henderson, Chairman
Phone 256 337 0826

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