More tourists won’t replace loss of life
This is in response to an article in the Wednesday, Oct. 16 edition entitled, “We already have alcohol here.”
Yes, we already have beer/wine coolers here, and isn’t that bad enough. It’s a shame when people think allowing alcoholic beverages is better than paying extra taxes.
My father was an alcoholic and I would have been very thankful to pay “extra” taxes when I was a child than to see him in a drunken stupor each and every weekend. He used to spend all of those tax dollars he “saved” on liquor.
My mother would be without money a lot because he would take his paycheck he received on Friday and go to the tavern that was in town and get drunk. Then, he would drive home.
He had numerous car accidents and, thank God, no one was killed. Just because we have beer/wine coolers here does not make it OK for anything else. Two wrongs do not make a right.
As for churches not paying a penny in taxes, the church is the people, not the building. As a person, just like you, I have already paid taxes on what I give because I am the church. Paying “extra” tax dollars will not take me to hell, but condoning or allowing liquor by the drink will.
It’s like saying all but two states have the lottery so we might as well too. It’s like saying people are having abortions anyway so why not let it be legal everywhere. It’s a matter of moral obligation.
This town is not dying because we don’t have liquor by the drink. Look around. There are a lot of other things to attract tourists besides drunks. Using tourists to have liquor by the drink or lower taxes is a poor excuse, not a reason.
My children have already had to grow up with drugs and peer pressure. I am thankful I didn’t have to worry as much about them being killed by a drunk driver leaving a restaurant in this town. I hope and pray the Christians in this town use their moral obligation and vote no to liquor by the drink. I don’t want to bury a loved one because someone had a few and chose to drive.
Please look on the same page of the Southern Standard in which the mentioned article appeared. Mr. Prince has lost his daughter and I’m sure tourists or lower taxes will never fill his, or her mother’s, void.
Maggie Hurst
3237 Yager Road