Price of alcohol in Germany today compare to Ireland, date 23/05/24

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1. Wait is today the 23rd?

2. Where’s the comparison?

3. This is honestly embarrassing for ireland. How is our resolution to every single issue “fuck tackling the actual issue, let’s make its cost more”

4. The whole idea of MUP seems absurd to me, from my understanding it’s not even a tax, it’s just a rule that some drinks have to have a certain price. This just puts more money into the drinks company pockets. It seems this caused an upward price spiral (if the cheapest wine is 7.5€, then of course the wine that’s worth 3.5€ has to be sold for 15€ instead…)

5. I did the same thing when I was in Germany, took loads of pictures of how cheap the alcohol was. Tbh the train/underground and alcohol prices where the most impressive things I saw.

6. ‘We are all alcoholics so the government is helping us by introducing minimum price per alcohol unit. it’s all with out best interest in mind.’
   Is just another tax in Ireland.

7. Wait are you telling me that it’s cheaper to buy alcohol from your neighboring countries that you can drive to vs. packaging and shipping it all to go to an island further away? An island that mind you consistently ranks high on metrics of problematic drinking behaviours and also ranks high on metrics of related health complications that strain an already struggling health system. Logistics and shipping costs money. Public health taxes are effective.

8. I’m not going to deny that Ireland has a problem with alcoholism, but is there any justification for MUP when we already have prices twice the cost of the continent?

9. There are only 5 million of us in the Republic.

   They have to tax us to death, unfortunately, to provide us with poor services.

10. Check out the price of a pack of smokes in Germany if you really want to make people’s jaws drop.

11. Glad I don’t drink alcohol. Shit is awful for you, never mind the cost.

12. The Irish government is scamming its people like there’s no tomorrow.

13. And yet we’ve “Cheap alcohol”

14. On erasmus right now living this reality, really don’t want to come back tbh. Sick of spending 40 euro on a night out for like 5 drinks.

15. I was in Czech Republic last summer and a 750ml bottle of Jameson was around €14 in a supermarket. You’re paying €25+ over here. Despite the fact that it has to be transported over there.

16. Moving back there in September and I’m a moderate drinker, but am delighted a nice bottle of wine is so affordable there.
    Moving to wine growing region too where a decent bottle of local vino can be had for less than €5.
    Cheapest can of beer I’ve seen in Kaufland was 35c.

17. Are people just ignoring the fact that Ireland has a MASSIVE binge drinking and pub culture? Which is a pretty significant issue