Welcome to Peters Pages Ministries' Blood money page!

• Reason for this page?-- Cirrhosis of the liver is the fourth leading cause of death in large U.S. cities for person's aged twenty-five to forty-five.
  
  
• The Goal - Health and medical costs are out of sight. One dollar in every five spent for hospital care in the United States is for an alcohol-related illness or problem. Beverage alcohol manufactures must pay their share of the damages just like the tobacco industry is now doing.
  
  
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THE DECEIVED SOCIAL RECIPIENTS:

If you are hospitalized in Minnesota, there's a good chance your temporary home will have been partially paid for by tax dollars provided through the sale of beverage alcohol. The sewers outside the building and the water mains bringing that clear Minnesota water to your room are likely to have been made possible by the same benefactor.

Travelers’ drive through Texas on roads constructed in part with money brought in through the sale of booze.

In Utah, alcohol revenue helps provide school lunch programs.

The Children's Colony in Arizona is financed by taxes from the sale of alcoholic beverages, as are many of the playgrounds in Nashville, Tennessee.

Medical and biological research at Washington State University is made possible by money produced from liquor taxes. Interestingly, research there has recently pointed out the seriousness of the fetal alcohol syndrome.

Revenue from the sale of alcohol in the United States totals approximately ten billion dollars annually. The federal government's share of this amount is somewhat more than that of the states. For example, in 1975 total revenue was $9.6 billion, with $5.4 billion going to the federal government and $4.2 billion going to the states.

Tax revenue is not the only way that beverage alcohol benefits the nation. One out of every forty-nine working Americans is employed by the liquor industry, and more than ten billion dollars is paid yearly to these workers.

ALCOHOL COSTS:

"In 1943 the General Court of Massachusetts reported that for every dollar of beer and liquor tax received, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts spent $3.50 for known and measurable costs. In 1957 a survey by the Utah State Board on Alcoholism disclosed that for every dollar of beer and liquor tax received, the state was spending $1.37 just to care for alcoholics. In 1971 a study by a prominent economist indicated that for every dollar of liquor revenue that Tennessee received from Shelby County and Memphis, it cost the state $2.28 in alcohol-related expenses...."

In a new study prepared under a grant from the NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism), four prominent researchers estimated the economic impact of alcohol problems in the U.S. for 1975 at $42.75 billion.

Remember that these alcohol-related expenses were for 1975. In that same year, revenues received from liquor sales were $9.6 billion. In 1975, then, for each $1.00 received in taxes on alcoholic beverages Americans paid $4.41 to care for alcohol problems.

THE REAL COST OF ALCOHOL

There is another dimension to the cost of alcohol use that cannot be measured: the cost of human suffering. Consider the grief of those who lose loved ones in automobile or industrial accidents; the hurt of those who experience the heartbreak of divorce; the physical agony of those who endure disease and pain as a result of alcohol's impact upon their bodies, and the mental anguish of those who are pushed to the brink by alcohol problems of their own or of those close to them.

Any way you figure it, the booze business is bad business for all Americans, except those directly profiting from that industry.

A newspaper article written by a prominent citizen said:

"The liquor business is the only business I know that keeps a one-sided ledger -- that deals with receipts and ignores legitimate expenditures. It takes the profits and leaves the expenses to someone else. Within one year in Vancouver I buried three young people who had been killed by alcohol on the highways. That is not my assumption; that is the verdict of the jury. At not one of those funerals was there a representative of the business that killed them. They did not pay the funeral expenses or look after the orphans. If it had been a railway accident, the fault of the road, they would have been there. Had it happened in an industrial plant, they would have been there. But this accursed business grasps its privileges but takes no stock in its obligations. Some foolish people seem to think it pays. If it met its legitimate bills, it would go bankrupt in a year."