Sorry nikimcbee - Outrage brewing over proposed 1,900% beer tax hike in OR

[SUBMAN1]

http://www.kgw.com/business/stories/kgw_021309_news_oregon_beer_tax.126942e1.html

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[nikimcbee]

http://www.kgw.com/business/stories/kgw_021309_news_oregon_beer_tax.126942e1.html

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ha! they were bitching about this on the radio. We'll add this to the hospital tax our retarded gov wants. Too bad portland liberals run this state.:o

[UnderseaLcpl]

Take heart Niki, maybe with a little more effort, your state can be as wonderful as Kalifornia, the socialist paradise.

[Jimbuna]

You should be okay mcbee....it doesn't look like they're going to do anything to the price of milk :DL

[Frame57]

Hey Isn't that dude from Nerdvana a senator or something up there? All should be very grungy by now....:)

[Skybird]

We’re a family-owned, local Portland business. We don’t want to see something cost taxpayers more than the revenue it would bring in,” De Kalb said. “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. A pint of beer would go from $4.50 to $6.”

Repetitorium:

A pint of beer would go from 4.50 to 6.00. That is 33% plus.

Admitted: "1900% beer tax hike" sounds so much more sensational and is better suited to raise the emotions of the masses.

[SUBMAN1]

Repetitorium:

A pint of beer would go from 4.50 to 6.00. That is 33% plus.

Admitted: "1900% beer tax hike" sounds so much more sensational and is better suited to raise the emotions of the masses.
Are you nuts? An extra $1.50 for a pint of beer? This 'same' amount applies to a bottle of beer to. So your crappy Budweiser (piss water) will also go up to about $2 a can. If this holds true (assuming it is equal for the amount of beer), Budweiser will go up from its 25 cents a can to $1.75 to $2.00 a can.

Now are you having a hard time swallowing it?

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[em2nought]

We’re a family-owned, local Portland business. We don’t want to see something cost taxpayers more than the revenue it would bring in,” De Kalb said. “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. A pint of beer would go from $4.50 to $6.”
Repetitorium:

A pint of beer would go from 4.50 to 6.00. That is 33% plus.

Admitted: "1900% beer tax hike" sounds so much more sensational and is better suited to raise the emotions of the masses. Ah, I see so in never never land you pay $4.50 in tax and the beer is free. Raise it to $6.00 in tax for free beer, and the tax only went up 33%. ;)

[nikimcbee]

You should be okay mcbee....it doesn't look like they're going to do anything to the price of milk :DL

As long as they don't mess with the chocolate milk, everything is okay.:cool:

[UnderseaLcpl]

We’re a family-owned, local Portland business. We don’t want to see something cost taxpayers more than the revenue it would bring in,” De Kalb said. “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. A pint of beer would go from $4.50 to $6.”

Repetitorium:

A pint of beer would go from 4.50 to 6.00. That is 33% plus.

Admitted: "1900% beer tax hike" sounds so much more sensational and is better suited to raise the emotions of the masses.

There are a lot more pressing concerns than just what one has to pay for beer, whatever the numbers are. This is unfair persecution of an industry by the state to further objectives that don't coincide with the preservation of liberty or the even the will of the people. Just another example of the state skirting around the restrictions placed upon it to further its' own agenda, in this case ignoring the Constitutional repeal of prohibition, in spirit(no pun intended)
And even after all that, they'll just waste most of the revenue they gain. Governments of all types are notorious for that.