Can You Help Me Understand This Paragraph About Teenage Drinking?

Question by iammonster: Can you help me understand this paragraph about teenage drinking?
“If Mr. Reid thinks that politicians are hanging tough on the drinking age of 21 in order to “garner support and contributions from interest groups,” I suggest he take a look at the political contributions from the alcohol industry to keep the price down by killing tax increases (and in this Congress to roll taxes back) and to prevent content and caloric labeling of its products.”

i dont understand the argument that this writer is trying to appeal?

Best answer:

Answer by magick727
The only logic I can derive is that “If for some reason Mr. Reid has an opinion that special interests are keeping the age at 21, he may also be interested in knowing….” There are no supporting or conflicting statementes between the two. But since he’s interested in the topic read on.

Answer by Dando
Mr Reid considers that politicians are determined to keep the drinking age at 21, for in this way they hope that interest groups in favour of this will both support them and make financial contributions (to their election funds or party funds). However, I suggest that Mr Reid looks at how much money is contributed by the alcohol industry, who do so to make sure that tax on alcoholic drinks isn’t increased (and in the present Congress even to make sure that the tax is reduced) and to stop the content and calorific value of such drinks to be written on the label by law.

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