{"id":28330,"date":"2014-10-19T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28330"},"modified":"2014-10-19T12:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:38:07","slug":"brace-yourselves-for-beer-store-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/19\/brace-yourselves-for-beer-store-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace yourselves for Beer Store price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2014\/10\/18\/wynne_ready_to_battle_beer_store_for_revenue.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Ferguson<\/a> details the provincial government&#8217;s new-hatched plans to pry more money out of consumers (by way of the Beer Store monopoly):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Premier Kathleen Wynne says she won\u2019t shrink from a battle with The Beer Store as her government thirsts for a bigger cut of sales despite brewers\u2019 warnings it would mean higher prices for suds lovers.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came Saturday as Wynne commented in detail for the first time on recommendations from a blue-ribbon panel on squeezing more money from publicly owned agencies and the distribution system for beer, wine and spirits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve laid out some challenging ideas for us and I\u2019m absolutely willing take those on,\u201d Wynne said of the panel headed by TD Bank chair Ed Clark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill it be easy, will it be a path that is without any challenges? No it won\u2019t be but that\u2019s not a problem from my perspective. That\u2019s exactly why it needs to be taken on,\u201d she added after a 22-minute speech to party members in this border city for a strategy session and victory party after winning a majority in the June 12 election.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u2019s recommendations Friday were a timely distraction for Wynne with the legislature starting its fall session Monday and her Liberals under fire for a bailout of the mostly vacant MaRS office tower across from Queen\u2019s Park, with taxpayers on the hook for hefty interest payments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government already taxes beer at 44%. I guess they think that&#8217;s too little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Toronto Star, Rob Ferguson details the provincial government&#8217;s new-hatched plans to pry more money out of consumers (by way of the Beer Store monopoly): Premier Kathleen Wynne says she won\u2019t shrink from a battle with The Beer Store as her government thirsts for a bigger cut of sales despite brewers\u2019 warnings it would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,84],"tags":[210,957,469,87,118],"class_list":["post-28330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-government","tag-beer","tag-kathleenwynne","tag-monopolies","tag-ontario","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7mW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28331,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28330\/revisions\/28331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}