Why Covid-19 Has Weakened The Case For Liquor And Petro-Goods Under GST

The long and disorderly queues outside liquor shops yesterday (4 May) have drawn a lot of criticism: some decry the opening of liquor shops because proper safe distancing norms were not followed; others critique the very idea of giving people the right to a tipple when thousands of the migrant poor are semi-starved and without enough money in their pockets. The one thing everyone agreed on was tha…