Louisiana Eyes Beer tax Increase
I've written about it before. Raising excise taxes is a self-defeating exercise. The evidence is all around us, and yet politicians still see these regressive taxes a a magic bullet that will fund all their largesses and end the offensive behavior being taxed.
In Louisiana, more politicians are jumping on the excise tax bandwagon to make up for budgetary shortfalls brought about by the recession. Here's a nice article that explains the perils of excise taxes.
As craft beer drinkers, we need to inform our elected criminals, uh, I mean, elected officials that these taxes will only hurt the brewing industry, and remove a source of tax revenue from the rolls.
Labels: Beer Politics
posted by hiikeeba at 08:38
1 Comments:
Good luck with that, they're already working on it here. The only thing that stopped them is that when the legislature tried to pass the voter ID bill, the Dems wouldn't let it come to the floor and the Republicans refused to consider any new bills, creating a backlog that prevented any new laws from being enacted. But, increasing taxes in craft brewers was on their to-do list. Not all brewers, just craft brewers.
http://dailybeerjournal.blogspot.com/2009/01/beer-alliance-of-texas.html
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