Is the way “harm reduction” got organized crime off the streets and into the government.
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Who would have ever thought that if you help people who have a drug problem, by giving them greater access to drugs, they would develop an even greater dependency on drugs.
Oh, pretty much everyone including the people tasked to help the addicts, who in turn helped themselves by preying upon these people. Do they (the helpers) know the difference between preying and helping? Helping is when you don’t make any money off the people you are helping.
Exactly. They’re like the poverty industry only more lethal.
The recipe for selling evil to people, and profiting from their ignorance, is as follows:
1) Find evil POSs who will front the cause, and who have some credentials in the field
2) Use state media to repeatedly push them as “experts”, while downplaying the vast majority of their peers who speak knowledgeably and intelligently against them
3) Repeat ad nauseum
4) Come up with a focus-group approved name for the scam they’re pushing. In this case, “harm-reduction” b/c it sells better than “needles-for-junkies”.
5) Pretend to do a trial run, hide the terrible results of the study, declare it a success, and then ramp it up to full production
6) Force taxpayers to fund it
7) Tar opponents as cold-hearted, uncaring, and “against the science”
Fun facts that sort of destroy the opinion that drug addicts are the only victims:
Average number of drug overdose calls received by the Vancouver Fire Department daily (20 to 25)
Percentage of calls received by the fire department in Vancouver that deals with drugs (50% annually)
Chances are that the Vancouver Fire Department will be out wasting time on an Overdose call when you frantically call in because your house is on fire (PRETTY DAMN HIGH)
Orson
I explained the same thing to my friend (conservative) who said abortions are cheaper than on going welfare for the unintended births. Abortions help overload the health care system, causing longer wait times for ligit health issues, and so preventing those to become productive again, and yes I am pro choice on this topic, as I don’t like state dictates.
Also YOU were wrong with your nonsensical MJ post a while ago!
((Also YOU were wrong with your nonsensical MJ post a while ago!))
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Still no idea what this is in reference to. I think you made the same comment before ages ago, and I didn’t know then either.
MJ? Michael Jackson? Michael Jordan? Mick Jagger? Mila Jovovich? Magic Johnson? Mark Jacobs?
Mary Jane? Marijuana? Parsley?
Muskellunge Junkie? (my next band, touring midwest lake resorts this summer)
”Evil profiteering off human misery”
Yet the Canadian govt. still PROFITS off the REGULATED, highly TAXED sale of alcoholic beverages … because drunkenness is a sin … but drug addiction is to be encouraged. When you can make sense of that … get back to me.
Your government has been profiteering off alcohol sales for … ever. So why would you expect anything different for drugs. And now do marijuana.
Well, so have American governments been profiting off alcohol. But, at least your jurisdictions apply just sales tax to liquor. But, as shown below, in BC, taxing and increasing the cost of drinks is an industry unto itself.
Federal Excise Tax
– **Spirits**: Approximately $13–$14+ per litre
– **Beer**: Per hectolitre (hl) rates, e.g., ~$37–$38/hl for beer
– **Wine**: Low fixed rates per litre (e.g., $0.75/litre depending on ABV and type;
– These are not percentages but translate to a portion of retail price (often 5–10% effective burden depending on product).
– **Goods and Services Tax (GST)**: 5%
### Provincial Taxes and Fees (BC-Specific)
– **Provincial Sales Tax (PST)**: 10% on retail sales of liquor
– **Liquor Markup (via BC LDB)**: This is the largest provincial “fee” component, applied at the wholesale level by the LDB (government monopoly wholesaler). Before Tax.
– **Spirits**: Often ~124% markup
– **Wine**: Tiered, e.g., ~89% on the first portion (up to ~$11.75/litre) + ~27% on the remainder
– **Beer**: Varies, but contributes to overall high burden.
– These markups are not called “taxes” but function as such (major revenue source for the province). They can represent 20–30%+ of final retail price depending on.
### Combined Impact / Effective Burden
– Total taxes/fees often make up **~30–40%** (or more) of the final retail price for many products (e.g., ~38.7% for beer in some older estimates; similar for others).
A good bottle of scotch costs at least $80, more often over a hundred.
Example, my fave, a 16year old Lagavulin, is $72 at Costco Honolulu. It’s $165 Can, before PST 10%, here at home.
I always bring 2 back with me from Hawaii. Otherwise, the Duty free shops are nice to look in, but are inflated in cost too and not worth it.
For the cheap cost of booze in the US, you don’t have alcoholics laying all over the streets. That’s been one of the canards our governments have cautioned against having liquor cheaper. They lie, constantly.
It isn’t “harm reduction”….it is a never ending government program of harm CONTINUATION.
Eby is the Useful IDIOT at the Center of attention, of this stupid, ill-thought out expedition.
But, who was the catalyst, the instigator, the credentialed authority figure that really made this happen?
Bonnie Henry. Yes, the Covid Nazi. That Bonnie.
She had a lot of support too with all her female underlings cheering this on. And they are all gloriously wrong. Yet, none of them suffer any consequences for this wasteful, damaging fiasco.
And yet, to this day, Eby and his commie buddies still have 37% support, despite this. At least now, they are looking up at the “conservatives”, who are posed to make a clear Liberal their leader.
Yet they offer MAID to people with as little as a hang-nail.
Who would have ever thought that if you help people who have a drug problem, by giving them greater access to drugs, they would develop an even greater dependency on drugs.
Oh, pretty much everyone including the people tasked to help the addicts, who in turn helped themselves by preying upon these people. Do they (the helpers) know the difference between preying and helping? Helping is when you don’t make any money off the people you are helping.
Exactly. They’re like the poverty industry only more lethal.
The recipe for selling evil to people, and profiting from their ignorance, is as follows:
1) Find evil POSs who will front the cause, and who have some credentials in the field
2) Use state media to repeatedly push them as “experts”, while downplaying the vast majority of their peers who speak knowledgeably and intelligently against them
3) Repeat ad nauseum
4) Come up with a focus-group approved name for the scam they’re pushing. In this case, “harm-reduction” b/c it sells better than “needles-for-junkies”.
5) Pretend to do a trial run, hide the terrible results of the study, declare it a success, and then ramp it up to full production
6) Force taxpayers to fund it
7) Tar opponents as cold-hearted, uncaring, and “against the science”
Fun facts that sort of destroy the opinion that drug addicts are the only victims:
Average number of drug overdose calls received by the Vancouver Fire Department daily (20 to 25)
Percentage of calls received by the fire department in Vancouver that deals with drugs (50% annually)
Chances are that the Vancouver Fire Department will be out wasting time on an Overdose call when you frantically call in because your house is on fire (PRETTY DAMN HIGH)
Orson
I explained the same thing to my friend (conservative) who said abortions are cheaper than on going welfare for the unintended births. Abortions help overload the health care system, causing longer wait times for ligit health issues, and so preventing those to become productive again, and yes I am pro choice on this topic, as I don’t like state dictates.
Also YOU were wrong with your nonsensical MJ post a while ago!
((Also YOU were wrong with your nonsensical MJ post a while ago!))
____________________________________
Still no idea what this is in reference to. I think you made the same comment before ages ago, and I didn’t know then either.
MJ? Michael Jackson? Michael Jordan? Mick Jagger? Mila Jovovich? Magic Johnson? Mark Jacobs?
Mary Jane? Marijuana? Parsley?
Muskellunge Junkie? (my next band, touring midwest lake resorts this summer)
”Evil profiteering off human misery”
Yet the Canadian govt. still PROFITS off the REGULATED, highly TAXED sale of alcoholic beverages … because drunkenness is a sin … but drug addiction is to be encouraged. When you can make sense of that … get back to me.
Your government has been profiteering off alcohol sales for … ever. So why would you expect anything different for drugs. And now do marijuana.
Well, so have American governments been profiting off alcohol. But, at least your jurisdictions apply just sales tax to liquor. But, as shown below, in BC, taxing and increasing the cost of drinks is an industry unto itself.
Federal Excise Tax
– **Spirits**: Approximately $13–$14+ per litre
– **Beer**: Per hectolitre (hl) rates, e.g., ~$37–$38/hl for beer
– **Wine**: Low fixed rates per litre (e.g., $0.75/litre depending on ABV and type;
– These are not percentages but translate to a portion of retail price (often 5–10% effective burden depending on product).
– **Goods and Services Tax (GST)**: 5%
### Provincial Taxes and Fees (BC-Specific)
– **Provincial Sales Tax (PST)**: 10% on retail sales of liquor
– **Liquor Markup (via BC LDB)**: This is the largest provincial “fee” component, applied at the wholesale level by the LDB (government monopoly wholesaler). Before Tax.
– **Spirits**: Often ~124% markup
– **Wine**: Tiered, e.g., ~89% on the first portion (up to ~$11.75/litre) + ~27% on the remainder
– **Beer**: Varies, but contributes to overall high burden.
– These markups are not called “taxes” but function as such (major revenue source for the province). They can represent 20–30%+ of final retail price depending on.
### Combined Impact / Effective Burden
– Total taxes/fees often make up **~30–40%** (or more) of the final retail price for many products (e.g., ~38.7% for beer in some older estimates; similar for others).
A good bottle of scotch costs at least $80, more often over a hundred.
Example, my fave, a 16year old Lagavulin, is $72 at Costco Honolulu. It’s $165 Can, before PST 10%, here at home.
I always bring 2 back with me from Hawaii. Otherwise, the Duty free shops are nice to look in, but are inflated in cost too and not worth it.
For the cheap cost of booze in the US, you don’t have alcoholics laying all over the streets. That’s been one of the canards our governments have cautioned against having liquor cheaper. They lie, constantly.
Legendary taxman Francis X. Cise…
Kenji,
Government involvement, by definition, excludes the possibility of profit. At least 50 or 100 bureaucrats are required to administer crimes previously committed by one guy in a ’72 Riviera.
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It isn’t “harm reduction”….it is a never ending government program of harm CONTINUATION.
Eby is the Useful IDIOT at the Center of attention, of this stupid, ill-thought out expedition.
But, who was the catalyst, the instigator, the credentialed authority figure that really made this happen?
Bonnie Henry. Yes, the Covid Nazi. That Bonnie.
She had a lot of support too with all her female underlings cheering this on. And they are all gloriously wrong. Yet, none of them suffer any consequences for this wasteful, damaging fiasco.
And yet, to this day, Eby and his commie buddies still have 37% support, despite this. At least now, they are looking up at the “conservatives”, who are posed to make a clear Liberal their leader.
Yet they offer MAID to people with as little as a hang-nail.