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[–] joshhsoj1902 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This article shares the per-capita government alcohol revenue in Alberta vs Ontario showing Alberta coming out on top.

Does that feel like a strange stat to anyone else? The revenue would be based off total alcohol sales in dollar amount rather than volume of alcohol sold, I know it would hard to correct for that.

When I looked into this before (and that was hard to do because good Alberta data seemed hard to find, I don't have that data handy unfortunately) it seemed like Alberta cirizens spent like 5-15% more per capita annually on alcohol, knowing that negates the value of a per capita revenue number since on it's own it can't correct for the extra spent per person.

I would almost want a "government revenue" per "wholesale/retail value" or maybe multiple numbers where it's "government revenue" per "liter of liquor/beer/wine/etc" and then compare those in both markets.

Because that's truely what we want to measure right? We want government revenue to be high, while also not significantly increasing volume sold.