What is the point of australia have such high alchohol tax in order to “prevent excessive consumption”, if goon exists. (I know also government revenue but I don’t care about that part).

Goon is so cheap here, you can get a 5L cask of 11.5% red wine (the lords blood) for $15, and if you bought 2 a week, every week, for a whole year, you would spend less than the national average of the nation, at just 1,560 vs 1,674 annually, in a place with a median salery of 65,000 a year.

That’s only 130/ month, and you can get 90 standard drinks a week.

If some alcoholic had a decent income, then they can obtain 4,680 standard drinks a year, or 57.5 Litres of pure ethanol easily.

It’s insane, (but kind of lovely) to have $40 37% 700ml vodka exist, and $15 5,000ml 11.5% wine exist in the same nation.

Do any other nations have stupid alcohol taxes like this.

BTW the wine is here:

( https://www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_772812?store=3578&e_cid=ps:ds:GOOGLE:A212+-+Standard+Shopping+-+Wine+-+Red+Wine:Red+Wine:ds_keywords%3Dds_kw:PRODUCT_GROUP&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2N2_BhCAARIsAK4pEkXKjDwFLbfnJl1S0tZisJEc5XLLDP2ArCX0qSiMyIVsJ5N3LKZq2hUaAkYeEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds ).