We will get more regulation, because we want it?

Daily Telegraph - But spend a night out in the city hot spots of Kings Cross, George St and Pitt St and you will see just how widespread the problem has become locally. When Chelsea Taylor, from the Blue Mountains, goes out she said she liked to party as hard as possible. On Saturday night she started out drinking at the Piano Bar to celebrate her birthday before heading to several other venues in Kings Cross. "Girls can party just as much (as men)," she said. "I love a good night out. I don't get a chance to do it as much, so it's go time."

.......Young Australians aged 18 to 24 have the highest prevalence of risky alcohol consumption of all age groups, according to the 2004 National Drug Strategy Household Survey. On average, 264 young people die as a result of risky drinking each year. By 18, 50 per cent of men and women are risky drinkers, but the majority classify themselves "social drinkers".

Daily Telegraph - THE state's most senior policeman wants pubs and clubs to close early, claiming Sydney's soaring rate of alcohol-fuelled violence is worse than Los Angeles. Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said he was sick to death of seeing officers assaulted and backed any cutback in licensing hours. ......"Anything that makes our community safer, I'm for it," Mr Scipione told The Daily Telegraph. ...... "I'd be spinning you a yarn if I said we can arrest our way out of this problem. This issue is costing us millions in dollars as well as unspeakable damage on communities.
I think the easiest way to wrap up these cretins and louts is to make em' pay for the consequences of their stupidity. They are obviously getting money from somewhere to pay for all these drinks, our work information is open to the government, so dock their pay or sell their possessions to pay for the damages they cause and to cover the healthcare costs. That together with jail time will get them to clean up their own act all by themselves. But I don't believe this will happen as most of us don't want to pay for our own healthcare as one example, so how will we insist that others pay for the consequences of their actions.

Brace yourselves folks, in the future the government will have to impose new taxes on alcohol or just raise taxes in other ways to pay for these ever-increasing costs. The Commissioner is a good fellow and not some sort of dictator or something. His intentions are good but he has to work with what he's got, some of you might think that it's unfair that pubs should be forced to close early and all that, it's unfair that you have to pay extra for your booze when you don't binge and cause damage, but unfortunately it'll have to be this way because we always want the state to be involved and few of us are willing to take responsibility for our own lives.

With liberty comes responsibility, you can't have it any other way.

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