New Maryland additional beer and liquor tax

Novus Collectus

Novus Collectus

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2007 1st Special Session
HOUSE BILL 32
Increasing the State tax rate for alcoholic beverages from $1.50 to $5.25 per gallon for distilled spirits, from 40 cents to $1.40 per gallon for wine, and from 9 cents to 31.5 cents per gallon for beer.
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Sponsored by:
Delegate Curt Anderson, District 43
Delegate Cheryl D. Glenn, District 45
Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
Delegate Marvin E. Holmes, Jr., District 23B
Delegate Peter Murphy, District 28
Delegate Doyle L. Niemann, District 47
Delegate James E. Proctor, Jr., District 27A
Delegate Barbara Robinson, District 40
Delegate Luiz R. S. Simmons, District 17

BILL INFO-2007 1st Special Session-HB 32

Make sure to give your delegates which are sponsoring this bill a great thanks. If the tax is on brewing, then a 22.5 cent increase in tax per gallon of beer will likely destroy the Maryland microbrewery industry because by the time it gets to retail in will compound to two or three dollars more per six pack.
If the tax is only on retail, then this is still just an attempt at incremental prohibition.

Taxing liquor is one thing even though tax on it is high already, but taxing beer is like taxing food. It is used as a contributory food staple for many Marylanders and for many others it is a source of comfort when taken in moderation. Taxing beer just because it has the "demon juice" alcohol in it is telling about those that want to tax it. It suggests to us that they think all beer drinkers are a burden on society and all beer drinkers should be punished because of it.
Let the puritannical prohibitionists do something other than what they are doing now. Remember these names listed above during the next elections and send all who consider voting for this a message, let's make sure they can't try this again and vote them out of office!!
 
ImnoMensa

ImnoMensa

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They have just about taxed cigarettes to the maximum they will stand, so now they lean on the liquor business. It was predictable. Wait until they get that carbon tax credit off the ground.
 
awpitt

awpitt

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Novus Collectus said:
Remember these names listed above during the next elections and send all who consider voting for this a message, let's make sure they can't try this again and vote them out of office!!
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None of them from St. mary's or lower Calvert (dist 29).
 
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chuckster

IMFUBARED
Good, hope they ban booze in restaurants the way they banned smoking. Drinking is also bad for your health and second hand drinking such as drinking and driving kills others just like second hand smoke.
 
John Z

John Z

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Indeed! Taxing "evils" is the way to go. Cigs, alcohol, gasoline .... soon they'll put extra taxes on the McDonald's dollar menu! :lmao:
 
awpitt

awpitt

Main Streeter
chuckster said:
Good, hope they ban booze in restaurants the way they banned smoking. Drinking is also bad for your health and second hand drinking such as drinking and driving kills others just like second hand smoke.
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Apples & Oranges.
 
awpitt

awpitt

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chuckster said:
Good, hope they ban booze in restaurants the way they banned smoking. Drinking is also bad for your health and second hand drinking such as drinking and driving kills others just like second hand smoke.
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If I'm in a restaurant and someone is sipping a beer or glass of wine nearby, that has no effect on me. If that person is also smoking, it does have an effect on me. If that person is drinking to much and they drive, they're breaking the law.
 
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Rienell

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Ah, what BS. I wonder if I can get a tax exemption for medicinal purposes? Nothing like a shot of Wild Turkey to get rid of a sore throat.
 
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chuckster

IMFUBARED
awpitt said:
If I'm in a restaurant and someone is sipping a beer or glass of wine nearby, that has no effect on me. If that person is also smoking, it does have an effect on me. If that person is drinking to much and they drive, they're breaking the law.
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And if he is smoking he is now breaking the law. Also how many times have you watched a drunk start a fight or use foul language around children? Does that not effect you?
 
awpitt

awpitt

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chuckster said:
And if he is smoking he is now breaking the law. Also how many times have you watched a drunk start a fight or use foul language around children? Does that not effect you?
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Yes and if that was happening, that person would be kicked out.
 
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chuckster

IMFUBARED
Novus Collectus said:
2007 1st Special Session

Taxing liquor is one thing even though tax on it is high already, but taxing beer is like taxing food. It is used as a contributory food staple for many Marylanders and for many others it is a source of comfort when taken in moderation. Taxing beer just because it has the "demon juice" alcohol in it is telling about those that want to tax it. It suggests to us that they think all beer drinkers are a burden on society and all beer drinkers should be punished because of it.
Let the puritannical prohibitionists do something other than what they are doing now. Remember these names listed above during the next elections and send all who consider voting for this a message, let's make sure they can't try this again and vote them out of office!!
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I am done busting your chops but do you really beleive what you wrote about beer being a food that provides comfort? Please!
What this is is another "USER TAX" that they can sneek through and get into our pockets again. It will not stop with beer just like it didn't stop with taxing the smokers. This is only the beginning.
 
Novus Collectus

Novus Collectus

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chuckster said:
Good, hope they ban booze in restaurants the way they banned smoking. Drinking is also bad for your health and second hand drinking such as drinking and driving kills others just like second hand smoke.
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Beer in moderation is healthy. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that moderate drinking or all alcohol is more healthy than tea tottling.

moderate drinking3 hasbeen known since ancient times to promote conviviality and decrease tension, anxiety, and self-consciousness; the possible physical health benefits of moderate drinking were noted long ago as well.4 In moderntimes, numerous epidemiological studies associate moderate alcohol consumption with protective health benefits (see table), including a lower risk of coronary artery disease (CAD)(see, for example, Boffetta andGarfinkel 1990). In the United States,where CAD accounts for about450,000 deaths every year, some people advocate moderate drinking toreduce the risk of death from CAD
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Alcohol and the Cardiovascular System
Considering that at most 14,000 people a year die in an alcohol related accident (whether alcohol was the cause or not, alcohol was detected), and since we know that 450,000 Americans die a year from CAD which could have been prevented or tempered by moderate drinking, it is possible that just camparing drunk driving deaths and CAD that moderate drinking has saved many times more lives as a net result.

No one could argue any smoking has a net beneficial effect on health, but moderate consumption of alcohol has shown to be very healthy. If people who are not driving want to enjoy a glass or two of wine with their dinner in a restaurant, then why not let them? The vast majority of people who are served alcohol in restaurants do not drive drunk. YOu want to ban drinking in restaurants because some alcies, that probably bought their liquor in a liquor store anyway, wrecked their cars. Sounds like misdirected solution to a situation that is caused elswhere.
 
Novus Collectus

Novus Collectus

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chuckster said:
I am done busting your chops but do you really beleive what you wrote about beer being a food that provides comfort? Please!
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Yes, I do. Not only did I just cite a National Institute of Health report that agrees with my assesment moderate consumption of alcohol is healthy and provides comfort by decreasing tension and anxiety, but beer is a great source of "magnesium, selenium, potassium, phosphorus, biotin, and B vitamins" as well as being a food source.

Beer as liquid bread: Overlapping science. C. W. BAMFORTH (1). (1) Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

Beer has long since been known as liquid bread. Yet in the public consciousness of many societies, beer and bread occupy rather different standing in the moral high ground. Beer is unfairly pilloried as “empty calories”, but it can be demonstrated that it has several beneficial properties owed to its provenance as a grain derivative. Furthermore there is overlap in the relevance of several chemical events in brewing and bread-making, for instance the impact of oxidative cross-linking of polymers. This paper compares bread and beer from cereal to customer.
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World Grains Summit 2006 - Beer as liquid bread: Overlapping science
 
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