Church of Beer

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Oregon's Beer Tax

Is flawed. While taxing is one of the politicians great excuses to prove to the world that they are useful, the propose oregon beer tax is a little out there. It is aimed at the big breweries such as the like of coors/bud/miller, but they don't brew in oregon, so they won't end up paying that much. Sure they might end up paying a little but come on have you seen them not throw money at say sponsoring a patch on a cricket player's ass.
Who does the tax hurt? Rogue, Deschutes, McMennamins -brewers that are the foundation of this states beer love.
Sure a moderate increase would be fine, but the increase is going from something from $.0001 a bottle to .10 a bottle. And what is the proposed tax going to? Drug/Alcohol Rehab. What the fuck? why would I want to spend good tax money on that...little alone bad tax money? Why the hell do I want to throw money down that hole.