The Alternative Minimum Tax problem is permanently fixed removing a potential tax danger for middle class families.
The attempt to address the Alternative Minimum Tax problem is pitiful.
But the Wine and Spirit Trade Association said recent figures showed alcohol consumption was falling and there was little evidence showing that a minimum price would reduce problem drinking.
In fact, the real problem with a minimum wage is that it actually exacerbates unemployment, making it harder for low-skilled people to find work.
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The EC itself has already said "we have a problem with the compatibility of minimum pricing plans under community law".
The EC itself has said "what we can say is we have a problem with the compatibility of minimum pricing plans under community law".
Tory MP and ex-GP Sarah Wollaston told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she was "devastated" at reports minimum pricing would be dropped, describing problem drinking as "an absolute health crisis".
The industry is committed to tackling problem drinking and its consequences, but minimum unit pricing will not do that.
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But to many the clinching factor in support of a minimum price is that the evidence suggests it will hit the problem drinkers the hardest.
No lesser light than Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary, argued in a paper twenty years ago that it is necessary for government to mandate minimum levels of fringe benefits as a way to combat this problem.
You can do the bare minimum and then you can make some progressively harder decisions to solve the problem more and more.
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Scottish Labour's health spokesman Dr Richard Simpson said his party did not believe minimum unit pricing was the answer to tackling the country's drink problem.
In a statement, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley agreed with NICE on the urgency of the problem, but he said it was not clear that a minimum price "is the best way to impact price in order to impact demand".
But if imposing a minimum price on alcohol is the solution, what, precisely, is the problem?
In the Scottish Parliament, Labour, the Tories and Liberal Democrats said they would vote down minimum pricing, saying it might contravene European competition law and would fail to target certain "problem drinks".
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