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<blockquote data-quote="Channahon" data-source="post: 539191" data-attributes="member: 7666"><p>Sorry to bum you out, but the government is about to meddle in your can, of beer that is. The U.S. Senate is proposing <a href="http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/DJ/200905181811DOWJONESDJONLINE000532_univ.xml" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">large increases</span></u></a> in federal liquor taxes, and it is going to hit us right in our wallet and glasses.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Congress wants to increase tax on beer by 145 percent. This means you might be spending an extra $3 for a case. It doesn't stop there, with a 20 percent increase in hard liquor sales. Maybe the hardest hit is the wine drinkers. Wine sales would increase by 233 percent. Get ready to shell out an extra $7 for a case of wine.</p><p></p><p>The move is the government's answer to help pay for the rising cost of healthcare, especially for teh millions of uninsured. As part of the proposal, the tea-totallers are not safe either. The government is wants to hike the cost of a can of cola with a soda pop tax for soft drinks.</p><p></p><p>What can we do? Well as I see it we have two choices. We can either go <a href="http://www.referencecenter.com/ref/reference?invocationType=dgct&query=Boston%20Tea%20Party" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Boston Tea Party</span></u></a> style and dump beer in the Boston Harbor, but that's a waste of perfectly good, and increasingly expensive, beer.</p><p></p><p>Or the more sane option, we can write our representatives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channahon, post: 539191, member: 7666"] Sorry to bum you out, but the government is about to meddle in your can, of beer that is. The U.S. Senate is proposing [URL='http://news.morningstar.com/newsnet/ViewNews.aspx?article=/DJ/200905181811DOWJONESDJONLINE000532_univ.xml'][U][COLOR=#0000ff]large increases[/COLOR][/U][/URL] in federal liquor taxes, and it is going to hit us right in our wallet and glasses. Congress wants to increase tax on beer by 145 percent. This means you might be spending an extra $3 for a case. It doesn't stop there, with a 20 percent increase in hard liquor sales. Maybe the hardest hit is the wine drinkers. Wine sales would increase by 233 percent. Get ready to shell out an extra $7 for a case of wine. The move is the government's answer to help pay for the rising cost of healthcare, especially for teh millions of uninsured. As part of the proposal, the tea-totallers are not safe either. The government is wants to hike the cost of a can of cola with a soda pop tax for soft drinks. What can we do? Well as I see it we have two choices. We can either go [URL='http://www.referencecenter.com/ref/reference?invocationType=dgct&query=Boston%20Tea%20Party'][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Boston Tea Party[/COLOR][/U][/URL] style and dump beer in the Boston Harbor, but that's a waste of perfectly good, and increasingly expensive, beer. Or the more sane option, we can write our representatives. [/QUOTE]
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