A tax on your drink

In San Francisco "alcohol costs the city $17.7 million in ambulance, treatment, prevention and hospital services. This figure does not even include police and other nuisance costs to the city from excessive drinking."

Wow, that's a ton of money in ambulances and other services. Who knew alcohol could be so expensive? So SF is proposing a tax of about a nickel per drink which would then go to the city's emergency response systems to treat alcohol abuse. Good idea or unfair tax on business? You decide.