1,900% tax increase

POSTED BY: piratenews
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:42
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PIRATENEWS

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:29 AM

Quote:
Outrage brewing over proposed 1,900% beer tax hike

Four Portland legislators joined a Springfield senator to introduce Oregon House Bill 2461, which would impose a $49.61 tax on each barrel of beer produced by Oregon brewers.

The bill's language defends the tax by arguing alcoholism and “untreated substance abuse” costs the state $4.15 billion in lost earnings as well as more than $8 million for health care and nearly $1 billion in law enforcement-related expenditures.

“If that tax is passed it would mean consumers would pay $315 million more (in 2009) to buy the same amount of beer they bought in 2008," De Kalb claimed. "A pint of beer would go from $4.50 to $6.”

www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_021309_news_oregon_beer_tax.126942e
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This is the same state with Bill 666 by Senator Mennis, ordering a life sentence in a "forest work camp" for DUI - and "file sharing" - as "terrorism".
www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/sb0700.dir/sb0742.intro.html

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:42 AM

Heard about this on the radio yesterday too. If I drank anywhere near the amount of beer I use to, I'd be real pissed.

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