It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?