Karnataka's Horrendous Booze Tax

Let me begin by stating the obvious: 

The higher the taxes, the poorer the people.

Nothing else is true. The professors of "public finance" are all State employees. And this The State relies on "inflationary finance." To willingly pay taxes to such a regime is a "moral crime."


Yes, right next door to IIT-Delhi is The National Institute of Public Finance & Policy. All State-employed professors there. They know NOTHING. They are just APOLOGISTS for this The State.


Now, let me say something about Bangalore. I first came here in 1980 - and have been here many times since. In my second book Antidote2: For Liberal Governance there is an essay called "The Destruction of Bangalore." This book is dated 2003, and this essay is at least two years older. I saw it coming. And you people never listened.


Bangalore was once known as the "Pub Capital of India." I remember Ramda's Pub on MG Road way back when a mug of draught was Rs. 3.50. I remember pitchers at less than 40 rupees.


Today, the prices of beer and alcohol are KILLING.


Goa is cheap. Pondicherry is a little bit worse these days. But even Pondicherry is MUCH BETTER than Bangalore. So I am going back tonight on the Volvo bus. No road, of course, for such a magnificent bus. What are you paying taxes for? For the MGNREGA? 


In Goa, I used to buy cases of the local beer, "King's," for 200 rupees a case of 12 pint bottles. Tuborg pint retailed at 25 rupees. In Pondicherry, a big bottle of Tuborg costs 55 rupees. Here in Bangalore, I buy beer at 90 rupees a bottle. A pitcher of beer at The Sherlock Holmes Pub costs 300 rupees. Is this a FUCKING JOKE or what?


Now, let me tell you how all these high taxes make you all poorer.


When taxes are high, sales are low: Obvious. Less beer and alcohol are sold. The beer and alcohol factories work less, and hire less staff. Ditto for the transporters. Ditto for the retailers. And let me add that there are very few retailers in Bangalore. Goa is FREE. 

I LOVE GOA.

So free yourselves of this ONEROUS TAXATION, Bangaloreans.


It is a "moral crime" to willingly pay taxes to a regime that relies on "inflationary finance."

BE PROUD CITIZENS.

DEMAND LIBERTY!

DEMAND GOOD STREETS AND FOOTPATHS IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR TAXES.

YOUR ROADS AND FOOTPATHS SUCK.

And as for your taxes, they suck real bad.

Real bad.

And they entrench poverty.

Do NOT willingly pay these taxes.