Manchestershine wrote:warramungas wrote:Manchestershine wrote:
Has anyone on the Aussidistiller site ever tried lobbying government for changes?
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Been done to death bud.
Perhaps a bit more detail would help, did you contact the Minister directly? What was your angle? Every State Government has a small business policy committee did they have input into your lobbying? Did you buy any tables at the target politicians annual lunch? How much money have you spent on donations to election campaigns?
Nobody is going to lobby the government to legalize an illegal activity. The money at stake is huge (not to mention the payoffs, sorry, political contributions).
Lobbying to have it legalized needs to be done by legal distillers or similar willing to do so but why on earth would they? No offence intended to the legal distillers amongst our ranks but its just not worth their time or effort to reduce the amount of money they might make.
For you and me to do it, well I'm no Kerry packer but maybe you are, and I sure can't afford to be telling people I commit an illegal activity in the public arena.
If you've got a few million to spare and buy some politicians, damnit, I mean make some contributions, then by all means but as long as they leave us alone and its not worth their while to chase me I wont be sticking my neck out to have it chopped off.
If you've got enough money to buy the lobbying power you could make assault rifles compulsory in every home and school shootings a fun weekday activity for students. Just ask the NRA.