Posted on 03/03/2009 2:59:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
California could generate an additional $1.2 billion in revenue annually by increasing its excise tax on alcohol if a new bill proposed by San Jose Assemblyman Jim Beall becomes law.
Beall wants to raise the tax on alcohol for the first time since July 1991.
He says the tax money would be devoted to emergency services, alcohol and drug treatment programs and law enforcement operations related to alcohol and drug abuse.
His bill, AB 1019, would increase the tax by approximately 10 cents per drink for beer, wine and hard liquor.
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Tax the three P’s. Pot, Porn and Prostitution. That should help fill the state’s coffer.
It’s California. Tax their biggest industry and see how they whine. Put a special tax on movie tickets, movie houses, movie production, etc, and let’s see how their liberal actor/activists like that . . . . . .
He says the tax money would be devoted to emergency services, alcohol and drug treatment programs and law enforcement operations related to alcohol and drug abuse.
Continuing he said, “Unless of course, we decide to use it for other purposes. After all, we make the laws, we can change them as we see fit to better accommodate our purposes.”..he didn’t really say that, but when’s the last time a tax was used soley for the purpose for which it was intended?
He just keeps tossing this one out there regularly, like One Bill Gil Cedillo.. like ol’ faithful..
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how long before people go out of state to buy beer/cigs for their entire neighborhood? Buyers Clubs could actually save them some money
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California could erase a lot of its deficit by having as an alternative to a first time, non accident DUI charge, and “administrative fee” of $30,000.
In other words, a one time only fine instead of a DUI conviction, appealable only to a State administrator, not a judge. If you could not pay the fine up front, then you get the normal penalty through the courts.
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