Higher state tax on beer? (CA)

[Mugu]

By Mike Zapler, Mercury News Sacramento Bureau

SACRAMENTO - Joe Six-pack will have to pay a lot more to get his buzz on if Assemblyman Jim Beall has his way.

The 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.

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"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.

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Dan Gordon, co-founder of Gordon Biersch Brewing Co., calculated that the tax on a barrel of beer would go from $6.40 to $89. "We would all be looking for jobs," he said.



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http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8888028

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

1. So they'll do this, but they can't legalize and tax weed?

*sigh*

[DJ13]

2. First it was cigs, now beer, next Big Macs

The fascists arent happy unless you're as miserable as they are.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

5. What about candy?

[DJ13]

6. Here in California food (grocrey store) is excluded from taxes

Taxing candy may be a little harder than upping taxes on everything else people indulge themselves with.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Will there be a resurrection of the equivalent of the Whiskey Rebellion?

[damntexdem]

8. Well, if they tax the wrong thing, there could be a Wine Country Rebellion.

But I thought that there WAS a tax on junk food.

[rinsd]

4. I'll grab the pitchforks, you light the torches!

[damntexdem]

7. In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here.