The Buzz Has Been Killed
Overpriced campus area housing and beer should be the only costs of partying (not including physical costs like hangovers and those damn mystery bruises), but Eugene City Council doesn’t see it that way. Yesterday they approved the Social Host Ordinance, legislation that raises fines for party goers, in an attempt to cut down on underage drinking and rowdiness.
Apparently the council wasn’t swayed by student’s enthusiastic turnout against the bill.
We’ll see how the stats look in a few years, but it’s safe to assume that college kids will be college kids, and bigger fines will do nothing but give more money to the city of Eugene. Maybe that doesn’t sound so bad, but paying to party certainly does.
More about the ordinance can be seen in this previous blog post and in our November issue.
Cough it up!
A sad day for those naive economists who believed that government subsidies would promote Pareto optimal party behavior.