Aussie doctors want cask wine to be ‘taxed out of existence’

DOCTORS have called for cheap casks of wine, or “goon bags” — the staple of underage drinking in the park — to be taxed out of existence. The Royal College of Australian Physicians wants wine to be taxed like beer, to stop the health budget being wasted on preventable, alcohol-­related ailments. “This is not about stopping people drinking wine, this is about taxing cheap alcohol, which is abused by young people and those who already have problems,” RACP President Professor Nick Talley said.