{"id":5402,"date":"2023-09-06T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2023-09-06T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T11:02:03","slug":"milwaukee-drunkest-city-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5402","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee, Drunkest City in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/milwaukee-drunkest-city-in-america\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/milwaukee-drunkest-city-in-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alcohol consumption in Wisconsin has unfortunately become part of the state\u2019s culture. A recent report identifies Milwaukee as the drunkest city in America. Many other reports put multiple Wisconsin cities in the top ten of cities with the most excessive drinking. A contributing factor is the low tax rate our state has on alcohol. It\u2019s one of the lowest rates in the country and makes retail and wholesale prices lower. Making it easier for more people to purchase it.<\/p>\n<p>Our largest city has severe economic, education, crime, drug, and incarceration issues, creating more single-parent families in a city already badly suffering from family breakdown. Alcohol adds fuel to this fire. If raising the tax on alcohol would help reduce alcohol consumption, then we need to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/milwaukee-drunkest-city-in-america\/ Alcohol consumption in Wisconsin has unfortunately become part of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5403,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions\/5403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}