Regulate Me, I’ve Been a Bad Boy!
April 13th, 2008 at 7:37 pm by CrankyThe San Jose Democrat on Thursday proposed raising the beer tax by $1.80 per six-pack, or 30 cents per can or bottle. The current tax is 2 cents per can. That’s an increase of about 1,500 percent.
Beall said the tax would generate $2 billion a year to fund health care services, crime prevention and programs to prevent underage drinking and addiction.
“The people who use alcohol should pay for part of the cost to society, just like we’ve accepted that concept with tobacco,” Beall said.
Really, did any of you social-justice-fighters-of-the-big-bad-corporations see this coming?
Reason #1394 I’m glad to have left California.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Man, such a tax would make a man bitter enough to find God, or go to the gun range, or even, horrors, support protectionist policies on trade.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Help me Lee, I’m without HOPE!
April 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
You can tax my Sierra Nevada Pale Ale when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I had such high expectations for this post when I read the title.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Heh. Agreed WofA.
Actually I’ve been wondering why it’s taken so long. Roughly 20,000 people are killed by drunk drivers in this nation every year. An additional 500,000 are injured by drunk drivers every year. The people permanently damaged by having an alcoholic parent. You think second hand smoke incidents has numbers like that? I never understood why it’s been the smoking so heavily under fire.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Can’t you see what’s coming here? Ask for 1.80 per six pack but in the spirit of bi-partisanship and “reaching” across the aisle, they’ll settle on a $.90 per six pack hike. Then all the pols can hug and feel good about themselves because of their willingness to compromise…
April 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Sorry for the let-down, friends.
If it helps, imagine the apathetic portly matron at the DMV spanking me for not passing my emissions inspection.
On second thought, don’t.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Do the phrases “Volstead act”, “19th Amendment”, or “Prohibition” ring any bells?
We’ve been down this road before.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I want to shame the shamers. I would love a public campaign that shows young hipsters juxtaposed with the Prohibitionists and captioned “The New Prohibitionists”.
If there one thing the free-loving, free-tokin’ people don’t want to be, that’s a buzzkill.