There will be 88 - all the same we won’t give a drink ...: Help

All the past week, the Russians listened not without excitement and read into confused explanations of high federal ranks about vodka, which from February 25 should once again rise in price. Little can be so excited about the country's population as the news of increasing the price of a favorite folk drink.

All the past week, the Russians listened not without excitement and read into confused explanations of high federal ranks about vodka, which from February 25 should once again rise in price. Little can be so excited about the country's population as the news of increasing the price of a favorite folk drink. The main hardships of the educational mission lay on the shoulders of the Ministry of Economics, which was responsible for the "vodka" theme in the government. The head of the Department of Price of the Ministry of Economy Igor Bodyagin in a week, even a voice sat down a little, because he had to conduct explanatory work with media representatives of all stripes every day. Especially for the "OG", the exhausted official repeated: nothing extraordinary happened. Just in order to combat the left streams of alcohol, the Ministry of Economy increased the minimum price from 20 to 28 rubles per half liter. Thus, a liter, together with a bottle, should now cost a manufacturer at least 59 rubles, for a wholesaler - 60, and at least 62 rubles in the store. Will this measure lead to an additional one-time 30 percent growth of retail prices for strong? Of course not, says Bodyagin. If only because the price of vodka grows smoothly from the beginning of the year, only in January under the pressure of a new excise tax it rose by 15 percent. And for the same reason, it seems to rise in price by another quarter. And the ministry only states a failed fact on paper. “I go shopping all these days and look at prices,” Igor Vladimirovich told the OG correspondent. “The prices have not risen anywhere.” ... The Magellan supermarket has favorably accommodated in the very center of the recently surviving the highest visit of Zelenograd. On the occasion of St. Valentine's Day, representatives of the middle class with wives carefully examine the wine rows. They choose who is French dry, some Georgian semi -sweet, some Soviet champagne. Nobody cares about vulgar vodka. And the price tags against bottles are really the same as a week ago. The Smirnovskaya misses 64 rubles for 0.6 liters. With her in the company - Shtopa of the company "OST -ALCO" for 86 rubles for 0.7 liters. On the lower shelves, various "crystal" half liters are placed in the range of 60 rubles. In the Directorship Cabinet, the owner and his deputy for commerce are knocked out. Two holidays are coming - male and female. Therefore, the store the other day ordered vodka a quarter more than usual. Fortunately, you can buy and sell it at the old price. This, businessmen say, will be our gift to brothers in the floor and sisters in mind. And then? Then the harsh everyday life will come. “We will not be able to keep the previous price level,” explains the deputy director Andrei Yurin. “We will save the existing margin, of course, but the vacation price will increase!” Meanwhile, Igor Bodyagin believes that the Ministry of Economy had no other way out, except to raise prices. Twenty in half a liter installed by the ministry last year, with the advent of a new excise tax, is clearly outdated. As a result, the budget, according to the Ministry of Economy, monthly loses to a billion rubles. The new "minimum minimum" will show the underground vodka kings "Kuzkin Mother". And retail merchants, wish them to take advantage of a convenient occasion to raise the price in stores, will face a lack of solvent demand. Director of stores adhere to a different point of view. That manufacturer, they say, who makes really good vodka, will never agree to give it to the wholesale at the minimum price. If, for example, the crystal believes that their product in quality is twice the Tula or Kostroma analogues, then they will request a price at least one and a half times higher than the minimum. As for the frankly left goods, no normal merchant is risking with him today. Underground manufacturers have their own dealer network: owners of stalls and tents, who officially trade vodka are prohibited by law. And this network will not disappear anywhere, just the prices for an unrighteous product will also rise a little. So, the government’s efforts to fill the treasury may be in vain. Representatives of the middle class with wives will drink expensive wine, their less successful fellow citizens with double zeal will replenish the black cash desks of vodka falsifiers. The government does not hide the state of extreme irritation in this regard. Vladimir Putin has already given the team to prevent vodka prices. Officials of the Ministry of Economics talk about "storm in small containers." And not without tenderness, they recall previous times when the state owned all the vodka business in the country. However, who, asks, interferes with the federal authorities at once to end the left production of vodka, receiving real income from each hundred grams drunk by citizens? According to experts, for this you need a real trifle - to establish the production of cheap state vodka. This is quite real, because, according to the calculations of the Ministry of Economy, the cost of half the liter does not exceed 7 rubles today. That is, on each bottle, the state could have a triple -tag, while holding the divine prices for consumers. Moreover, the treasury in this case would receive funds seriously for a long time. The government, however, for which it already seems that the money in the state is needed now or never. Help * In the 50s, a bottle of the most folk - "Moscow" vodka - cost 25 then rubles. After the Khrushchev’s monetary reform of 1961, its price was quietly raised, and the magic number arose 2.87. * Stable vodka prices lasted until 1970. In 1970, vodka appeared for 3.62 and Extra for 4.12. The name of the latter domestic wit was instantly deciphered: "Eh, how difficult it became Russian alcoholics." * After the death of Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov decided to go down in history by launching cheap folk vodka into production. The novelty appeared on sale on September 1, 1983 and was affectionately nicknamed the "schoolgirl." * In 1984, the population of the then Russian Federation drank 240 million deacalists of alcohol. Vodka taxes gave 30 percent of the revenue of the state budget. * In 1992, with the beginning of market reforms and the registration of private property, the state monopoly on alcohol products ordered to live long. Vino -rushed factories began to appear in every province. Now there are 160 of them in Russia.

The main hardships of the educational mission lay on the shoulders of the Ministry of Economics, which was responsible for the "vodka" theme in the government. The head of the Department of Price of the Ministry of Economy Igor Bodyagin in a week, even a voice sat down a little, because he had to conduct explanatory work with media representatives of all stripes every day. Especially for the "OG", the exhausted official repeated: nothing extraordinary happened. Just in order to combat the left streams of alcohol, the Ministry of Economy increased the minimum price from 20 to 28 rubles per half liter. Thus, a liter, together with a bottle, should now cost a manufacturer at least 59 rubles, for a wholesaler - 60, and at least 62 rubles in the store. Will this measure lead to an additional one-time 30 percent growth of retail prices for strong? Of course not, says Bodyagin. If only because the price of vodka grows smoothly from the beginning of the year, only in January under the pressure of a new excise tax it rose by 15 percent. And for the same reason, it seems to rise in price by another quarter. And the ministry only states a failed fact on paper. “I go shopping all these days and look at prices,” Igor Vladimirovich told the OG correspondent. “The prices have not risen anywhere.”

... The Magellan supermarket has favorably accommodated in the very center of the recently surviving the highest visit of Zelenograd. On the occasion of St. Valentine's Day, representatives of the middle class with wives carefully examine the wine rows. They choose who is French dry, some Georgian semi -sweet, some Soviet champagne. Nobody cares about vulgar vodka. And the price tags against bottles are really the same as a week ago. The Smirnovskaya misses 64 rubles for 0.6 liters. With her in the company - Shtopa of the company "OST -ALCO" for 86 rubles for 0.7 liters. On the lower shelves, various "crystal" half liters are placed in the range of 60 rubles.

In the Directorship Cabinet, the owner and his deputy for commerce are knocked out. Two holidays are coming - male and female. Therefore, the store the other day ordered vodka a quarter more than usual. Fortunately, you can buy and sell it at the old price. This, businessmen say, will be our gift to brothers in the floor and sisters in mind. And then? Then the harsh everyday life will come. “We will not be able to keep the previous price level,” explains the deputy director Andrei Yurin. “We will save the existing margin, of course, but the vacation price will increase!”

Meanwhile, Igor Bodyagin believes that the Ministry of Economy had no other way out, except to raise prices. Twenty in half a liter installed by the ministry last year, with the advent of a new excise tax, is clearly outdated. As a result, the budget, according to the Ministry of Economy, monthly loses to a billion rubles. The new "minimum minimum" will show the underground vodka kings "Kuzkin Mother". And retail merchants, wish them to take advantage of a convenient occasion to raise the price in stores, will face a lack of solvent demand.

Director of stores adhere to a different point of view. That manufacturer, they say, who makes really good vodka, will never agree to give it to the wholesale at the minimum price. If, for example, the crystal believes that their product in quality is twice the Tula or Kostroma analogues, then they will request a price at least one and a half times higher than the minimum. As for the frankly left goods, no normal merchant is risking with him today. Underground manufacturers have their own dealer network: owners of stalls and tents, who officially trade vodka are prohibited by law. And this network will not disappear anywhere, just the prices for an unrighteous product will also rise a little. So, the government’s efforts to fill the treasury may be in vain.

Representatives of the middle class with wives will drink expensive wine, their less successful fellow citizens with double zeal will replenish the black cash desks of vodka falsifiers.

The government does not hide the state of extreme irritation in this regard. Vladimir Putin has already given the team to prevent vodka prices. Officials of the Ministry of Economics talk about "storm in small containers." And not without tenderness, they recall previous times when the state owned all the vodka business in the country. However, who, asks, interferes with the federal authorities at once to end the left production of vodka, receiving real income from each hundred grams drunk by citizens? According to experts, for this you need a real trifle - to establish the production of cheap state vodka. This is quite real, because, according to the calculations of the Ministry of Economy, the cost of half the liter does not exceed 7 rubles today. That is, on each bottle, the state could have a triple -tag, while holding the divine prices for consumers. Moreover, the treasury in this case would receive funds seriously for a long time. The government, however, for which it already seems that the money in the state is needed now or never.

REFERENCE

* In the 50s, a bottle of the most folk - "Moscow" vodka - cost 25 then rubles. After the Khrushchev’s monetary reform of 1961, its price was quietly raised, and the magic number arose 2.87.

* Stable vodka prices lasted until 1970. In 1970, vodka appeared for 3.62 and Extra for 4.12. The name of the latter domestic wit was instantly deciphered: "Eh, how difficult it became Russian alcoholics."

* After the death of Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov decided to go down in history by launching cheap folk vodka into production. The novelty appeared on sale on September 1, 1983 and was affectionately nicknamed the "schoolgirl."

* In 1984, the population of the then Russian Federation drank 240 million deacalists of alcohol. Vodka taxes gave 30 percent of the revenue of the state budget.

* In 1992, with the beginning of market reforms and the registration of private property, the state monopoly on alcohol products ordered to live long. Vino -rushed factories began to appear in every province. Now there are 160 of them in Russia.