IF LAST week’s Liquor Amendment Bill is anything to go by, thinking about liquor makes some politicians and bureaucrats more intoxicated than drinking it.They become incoherent megalomaniacs with delusional conceptions of causality. They think billboards advertising liquor on straight roads are better than ones near corners (as opposed to an intersections); that they know when 20-year-olds (as opposed to 21-year-olds) listen to radios; that people old enough to be the president are too young for wine with meals; that people who provide liquor should be vicariously liable for crimes unrelated to liquor; and that "the National Liquor Regulator must the minister may delegate powers …" (sic) is English.One of the nuttiest provisions reads: "The … distributor who distribute(s) to a retailer who does not have a licence is liable for death of any natural person."In their intoxicated stupor, they forget what they were told a few months ago. The bill repeats manifestly crazy provisions in la...
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