Twenty-One Debunked

This is an updated re-post in light of the current events involving the Cornell Seven case . As we had noted in a previous post  nearly twel...

In 1993, economist Donald S. Kenkel thought of a rather ingenious idea : lower the drinking age to 18, and also raise the alcohol tax by 12%...

(This is a continuation of a previous article from 2023.) Another recent Finland study  this year found that the higher alcohol tax rates a...

We have noted before how alcohol tax (and thus price) hikes have been proven time and again to save lives, whether from traffic deaths, oth...

Americans are still  drowning in the bottle  to this day, and paying a heavy price for it.  While the pandemic and especially the lockdowns ...

Americans are still drowning in the bottle to this day.  While the pandemic and especially the lockdowns were gasoline on the fire, that fi...

With all the news about tobacco, vaping, opioids, and cannabis lately, Twenty-One Debunked had almost forgotten about the very substance tha...

It has been three decades since the last state, Wyoming, raised their legal drinking age to 21 in 1988 under federal duress.  And since then...

As we had noted in a previous post four years ago, rape and sexual assault is a persistent epidemic in the USA, including (but not limited ...

Avid readers of our blog would note that Twenty-One Debunked  supports raising the tax on alcoholic beverages almost as wholeheartedly as w...

While the opioid epidemic has recently been declared a public health emergency, what if we were to tell you that there is another drug epide...

Ever since the invention of taxation thousands of years ago, there has always been much controversy about it.  One of the oldest (if not the...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:  I believe that alcohol taxes should be raised significantly, and the drinking age lower...

A recent bipartisan bill in Congress known as the BEER Act has making headlines lately.  What it would do is significantly reduce the feder...