Posted on 01/10/2020 9:57:56 PM PST by Libloather
ALBANY, NY -- It may be one of the few taxes in which New York state’s bite doesn’t rank among the nation’s highest.
Now, some New York City lawmakers want to more than double the state’s beer excise tax to provide more money for the State University of New York system.
The excise tax, paid by beer distributors, is currently 14 cents per gallon. Bills introduced ahead of the upcoming State Legislature session would raise that to 30 cents per gallon (that matches the state’s current excise tax on wine).
The Assembly sponsor of the bill, Brooklyn Democrat Harvey Epstein, estimates the increased beer tax would boost the state’s revenues from about $45 million to $96 million per year. Epstein’s bill would direct the added revenue to support both SUNY and CUNY (the City University of New York).
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We lived in NYS in the early 60s when the debate about the state lottery was raging. The argument FOR it was it was going to solve once and for all the funding of education.
Here we are almost 60 years later and they are still using the same tired old argument for MORE taxes.
You must be a youngster (but not that young if you went to Nam). I remember six-packs for less than $3. The all-time best was a Happy Hour draft beer in the San Francisco Financial District in 1973 for a mere 25¢!! That's $1.45 in today's dollars which would be an astounding price for a beer in San Fran.
A buddy of mine brews his own and is really good at it. He copies and sometimes modifies commercial recipes he finds. You can’t tell the difference between his brews and commercial. He keeps his family and friends in beer all the time.
I usually only drink three a week, so I’d have to have lots of thirsty friends to make brewing pay.
And many days a year, people stand in line to buy $14 beers inside that stadium happily giving away their money and electing more people who will raise their taxes even higher. It’s not going to end.
I’l never understand hwy they want to flood those states with illegals when illegals by and large are here only for welfare- nearly 70% of them go on welfare of some kind immediately and never get off it- These states are driving out hard working tax payers, and replacing them with wards of the state- Many peopel are movign out of NY because they can’t afford to live htere anymore- and blasio and cuomo seem hell bent on attracting illegals by givign htem liscences and free junk-
And that’s another thing- states are requiring special licenses IF people want to fly within our border- enhanced license or some such nonsense, and i checked it out for my state, and it’s a bear to get one- you have to provide several forms of proof that you are a legal citizen of the state- it’s very difficult as you have to prove legal residency- How much you wanna bet that illegals won’t have to prove any of that and will get the enhanced licenses without meeting the strict requirements?
there’s no mentioning increasing the tax on wine just beer to bring it to the same rate as wine...
it’s a tactic to increase the price of beer...
the same tactic used on cigarettes...
increase price to slow consumption...
the average person is most affected...
it’s all about control...
Doubling the beer tax in NYS would not make it number 1. Tennesse followed by Alaska holds that distinction at over $1 per gallon. This is on top of the federal tax on beer.
STATE TAX RATES ON BEER
(January 1, 2019)
EXCISE GENERAL
TAX RATES SALES TAX
($ per gallon) APPLIES OTHER TAXES
Alabama $0.53 Yes $0.52/gallon local tax statewide
Alaska 1.07 n.a.
Arizona 0.16 Yes
Arkansas 0.23 Yes 3% off- 10% on-premise tax
California 0.20 Yes
Colorado 0.08 Yes
Connecticut 0.24 Yes
Delaware 0.26 n.a.
Florida 0.48 Yes
Georgia 0.32 Yes $0.53/gallon local tax
Hawaii 0.93 Yes $0.54/gallon draft beer
Idaho 0.15 Yes over 4% - $0.45/gallon
Illinois 0.231 Yes $0.29/gallon in Chicago and $0.09/gallon in Cook County
Indiana 0.115 Yes
Iowa 0.19 Yes
Kansas 0.18 — 8% off- and 10% on-premise
Kentucky 0.08 Yes 10.0% wholesale tax
Louisiana 0.40 Yes $0.048/gallon local tax
Maine 0.35 Yes 7% on-premise saales tax
Maryland 0.09 — 9% sales tax
Massachusetts 0.11 0.57% on private club sales
Michigan 0.20 Yes
Minnesota 0.148 — under 3.2% - $0.077/gallon, 9% sales tax
Mississippi 0.4268 Yes
Missouri 0.06 Yes
Montana 0.14 n.a.
Nebraska 0.31 Yes
Nevada 0.16 Yes
New Hampshire 0.30 n.a.
New Jersey 0.12 Yes
New Mexico 0.41 Yes
New York 0.14 Yes additional $0.12/gallon in New York City
North Carolina 0.6171 Yes
North Dakota 0.16 — 7% state sales tax, bulk beer $0.08/gal.
Ohio 0.18 Yes
Oklahoma 0.40 Yes under 3.2% - $0.36/gallon; 13.5% on-premise
Oregon 0.08 n.a.
Pennsylvania 0.08 Yes
Rhode Island 0.11 Yes $0.04/case wholesale tax
South Carolina 0.77 Yes
South Dakota 0.27 Yes
Tennessee 1.29 Yes Excise Barrelage Tax and Wholesale Tax
Texas 0.194 Yes 14.95% on-premise and $0.05/drink on airline sales
Utah 0.4129 Yes over 3.2% - sold through state store
Vermont 0.265 Yes more than 6% alcohol - $0.55; 10% on-premise sales tax
Virginia 0.2565 Yes
Washington 0.26 Yes
West Virginia 0.18 Yes
Wisconsin 0.06 Yes
Wyoming 0.02 Yes
Dist. of Columbia 0.09 Yes 9% off- and on-premise sales tax
U.S. Median $0.20
Source: Compiled by FTA from state sources.
Note: n.a. = not applicable. These 5 states do not have a general sales tax.
FEDERATION OF TAX ADMINISTRATORS — updated JANUARY 2019
The yes, no or n.a. refers to whether sales tax also applies.
Nice graphic from the tax foundation.
https://files.taxfoundation.org/20190720190357/FINAL-REVISED.png
Can someone drop this directly here.
The most obvious reason (to me) for flooding states with unemployable illegals it to keep ANY population in them (preventing “Detroitification”); it is usually done by dying states (like my state of NJ, and neighboring NY), and it serves only the government worker caste (teachers, emergency responders, social workers, etc.). As the private sector employers flee high-tax areas, followed by the best workers and motivated young people, you are left with idle populations without a “host” tax base - just a pseudo-economy of safety net wealth transfers in areas that no longer have any “rush hour”. It is no coincidence that these dumps are increasingly looking for revenues from sources that previously hadn’t contributed (hospitals, for example); they are called “payments in lieu of taxes”, but they are de facto taxes.
Obama pushed nationwide rulings (ObamaCare, “gay marriage”, etc.) in an attempt to basically spread the misery to all 50 states; the socialist model doesn’t work if your “makers” can flee to greener pastures in other states, leaving masses of “takers” with no sugar daddies to pay their bills. Many current Dem proposals would continue that trend; they have to erase the economic advantages some states offer to businesses and taxpayers, or find ways to transfer the fruits of those labors back to the dying sh!tholes.
The license issue was ridiculous from the start; California was offering licenses to illegals while NJ was asking for so much documentation from normals to get them. On top of that, NJ towns are allowed to require proof of residence within a school district to attend the public schools, but not allowed to require proof that the students aren’t illegal aliens. That exposes the teachers’ unions’ stake in the whole issue; they need “customers”, and don’t care that they are non-paying customers - the teachers will get paid by squeezing the dwindling number of Americans here. As a result, young Americans see no point in buying homes to subsidize masses of foreign students with non-contributing parents; our property taxes are among the highest in the nation, and 2/3 of them go to our foreigner-filled public schools.
Well put response Kearny- Totally agree with all of that-
Thanks; it is bizarre living through this up close here in NJ. A 2% property tax cap put the squeeze on our overspending, bloated school districts, and they can only circumvent it by putting additional increases on the ballot. Many of those now fail for the reason I described above - American homeowners see little point in throwing money at foreign children in the public schools.
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