>Is it a tax? No. It taxes our sanity, civility, principles, religion, laws of nature ... and whereas advertising $$$ is generated from sales, in effect they are making us pay for them to promote this degeneracy. In 1773 we had taxation without representation, in 2023 we have this A-B taxation but we can let their beer rot on the pallets and take our business elsewhere. >But it's an extremely poor comparison and belittles history. It's just a meme. C'mon, man!