As one retired TTWMB employee points out: "The types of alcohol and the culture of their uses are completely different in the East and the West. Why should rice wine for be equated with hard drinking liquor?
「東西方的酒種、文化原本不同，西方料理的葡萄酒屬釀造酒，酒稅低，為什麼同屬料理酒的米酒都須課徵高稅？」一位公賣局退休員工指出。