Readers have mostly jeers for buck-a-beer

Re Buck-a-beer brewhaha, August 8 Marie Antoinette to Doug Ford: Let them eat cake.

Doug Ford to Marie Antoinette: Let them drink beer. NourbeSe Philip, Toronto People in Ontario definitely need to drink more beer. How else to deal with the anti-environment, anti-education, anti-health care and anti-Toronto kakistocracy they elected to four years of absolute power in the provincial legislature? Raphael Vigod, Toronto There is something seriously wrong with us as a social species that we are electing short-sighted fools as our leaders, when it’s becoming clear that our descendants will have to live in storm-resistant, solar-powered refrigerators to survive. Jim Mason, Toronto When Premier Ford proudly announced his “buck-a-beer” plan he declared: “The day you’ve been waiting for is finally here!”

Seriously? I can hardly wait for his “buck-a-joint” plan and “The daze you’ve been waiting for is finally here!” Reinhart Reithmeier, Toronto I’m sorry, but using “tallboys” of craft beer to try and make a point about buck-a-beer is comparing apples to oranges. Buck-a-beer obviously refers to 341-ml bottles of “value brands,” whose prices may be artificially inflated because of the current minimum price.

If beer can be sold profitably at a supermarket in Buffalo for 50 cents a can (in a case of 30), why is it such a stretch to get buck-a-beer here? David Pankhurst, East York Keep trying, Mr. Premier. All across this province are people waiting for help. You just turned on the wrong tap. Don Graves, Burlington The Beer Store is privately owned, and around 95 per cent of the beer sold there is controlled by large American brewing companies.

Doug Ford’s new policy will only help these multinationals take more of the Ontarian beer market and harm the local beer industry. Rene Ebacher, Toronto Everyone is completely missing the brilliance and nuance of Doug Ford’s performance. His campaign promises are all unified through buck-a-beer.

How are we going to charge a buck for a beer? Pay the brewers the newly reined-in minimum wage; the problem solves itself. And everyone else making that minimum wage? You might not be able to fill your grocery cart, but you can fill your beer stein. Carbs are really all you need.

Our soaring gas prices? Not anymore! All cars will now run on beer.

As for sex ed, buck-a-beer ensures everyone is uninhibited and free to experiment on their own — call it an “interdependent study project.”

Haters gonna hate, but you can bet your beer goggles that Doug Ford is going to Make Ontario Great Again. Anne Archibald, Toronto Re Editorial cartoon, August 9 The Theo Moudakis cartoon “Make Ontario Drunk Again” suggests that we beer drinkers were an inebriated lot until the Liberals got their claws into us.

I find it insulting, but in keeping with the Star’s anti-Ford policy. Donald Adams, Brighton, Ont.