new liquor tax
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toppick08
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Beats a tax on food(at the grocery store)....which will be next........
About time, since the last was in the 50's and early 70's......jmo.
About time, since the last was in the 50's and early 70's......jmo.
kwillia
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"Supporters estimate the tax would raise about $200 million and save lives by helping to reduce alcohol abuse."
$200 million is just about enough to cover annual home improvements on the governor's mansion... and true alchoholics are not wasting their money on high cost mixed drinks by the glass... dumbazzes...
Md. alcohol tax supporters push dime-a-drink tax - wtop.com
libertytyranny
Dream Stealer
"Supporters estimate the tax would raise about $200 million and save lives by helping to reduce alcohol abuse."
$200 million is just about enough to cover annual home improvements on the governor's mansion... and true alchoholics are not wasting their money on high cost mixed drinks by the glass... dumbazzes...
Md. alcohol tax supporters push dime-a-drink tax - wtop.com
no kidding
if they want to help..tax fifths of cheap whisky..and plastic bottles of E and J
Pete
Repete
Many states already do this. When I worked in the bar business many years ago in TN you had to buy your bar stock from bonded distributors. They collect the per shot tax up front when you purchase the bottle. A liter bottle yields 22 shots, 10 cents per shot = $2.20 tax on each bottle. If that liter costs $20 it now costs $22.20. If your bartender over pours, spills or drops and breaks a bottle it is too bad for the bar owner.
bulldog
New Member
It'll raise money, but doubt it will save any lives.
You and your buddies are going out for drinks. You drink (insert whatever here) that cost 6.50 per drink and you're going to have, say...3 drinks. That's 19.50 for your drinks and a good night out with your buds. Do they really think anyone is going to NOT do that over an additional .30 cents?
"Nope, sorry guys, I could afford the 19.50, but at 19.80 I'm staying home tonight".
Peter Forsberg
New Member
Tax Bumpers and 10oz buds. 
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It's a redistribution of wealth from the server to the state.
The first dime buys you a new battalion of people to "administer" the tax. Also, a $10million "study" that will last a year and come back with a finding that they can get away with charging 50 cents extra a shot with some sort of annual escalator tied to no more than three times the increase of the consumer price index.
bulldog
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Of course they can get away with it. Even at .50, given my scenario is only a buck fifty more per outing. The people who go out for drinks (in most instances) are not going to stop going over an extra 1.50 per outing.
luthersomd
Member
Those who collect the tax are already in place. An alcohol beverage tax has been in place in Maryland since the end of prohibition in 1935. An increase won't add one new job.
Maryland has 5.8 million people. 75% or 4.3 million are over age 18. So each adult Marylander must buy about 460 drinks, at 10 cents tax on each, to equal $200 million in taxes (although the 460 could be adjusted to account for some drinkers being from out-of-state).
kwillia
n/a
Wow. I guess they should have thought of that BEFORE they banned smoking in bars, huh?
bulldog
New Member
Wow. I guess they should have thought of that BEFORE they banned smoking in bars, huh?
You think that ban made a difference? I'm no longer a smoker, so I don't know, but can tell you my thoughts are that the folks who want to go out for a drink...or 10 are going to go out even if they can't smoke in the bar. I have asked several of the local joints how the ban has impacted them and most have said "not at all".