Raise Beer Tax to Reduce Teen Drinking

yahoo/reuters ^ | 9-9-03 | Maggie Fox

[Dan from Michigan]

It said many studies had shown that raising prices deters underage drinkers.
Studies by and paid from whom? Names and sources?

This ain't going to do jack squat to reduce underage drinking, and I get sick of these fascist candyass ninnies out there that want to tax or ban everything that is remotely a vice(Beer, pop, fatty foods, guns, smokes, etc). Why do underagers drink(and drink a LOT when they do)? With the tax, it won't stop them. Teens pool their money for beer.

1. It's a rebel thing. Nobody likes being told what to do.
2. It makes them think they are older.

As for these tax advocates, if they want a tax so damn much, they should pay into a tax me more fund. Leave my Guinness alone.

[Rodney King]

Great, shift them to drinks that give more bang for the buck like vodka.

[NeoCaveman]

As for these tax advocates, if they want a tax so damn much, they should pay into a tax me more fund. Leave my Guinness alone.

You are right.

[July 4th]

Underage drinkers also typically steal their beer and liquor from parents. The tax will only piss off mom and dad.

[scab4faa]

B/S ALERT!

[Dan from Michigan]

Now that scares the hell outta me.

I'll make sure to stay off the roads on Friday nights near the areas where the field parties were when I was that age.

[dogbyte12]

Beer is the cause and the solution of all of life's great problems-- Homer J. Simpson

Beer me!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Sure.

And we'll raise the price of sneakers to $100, and kids won't buy them.

I would support this if every penny of the badded beer tax revenues went to adult beer drinkers who turned in their beer receipts along with proof of adulthood.

[rmmcdaniell]

If they get thier way, we'll eventually be paying $40 a six pack if what happened to cigs is any indicator.

[LibKill]

Here lies the last American.

Taxed unto death.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Peanut Alert

[BluH2o]

Taxes on beer? Ya ... that'll work ... stop teenage drinking dead in its tracks! Where do we find these morons that propose this type of idiocy ... surely they're not conservatives.

[Falcon4.0]

These Jackasses haven't figured out that every dollar that a "Teen" has is disposable income regardless of the cost.

[Cicero]

Some of us take beer pretty seriously.

[rotstan]

How about increasing the tax on everyone who dies? Maybe it will reduce the death rate?

[Mr. Mojo]

Don't mess with my suds.

[Dog Gone]

I've got a better idea. Don't sell beer or cars or dynamite to children.

Why is that concept so hard?

[Vinnie]

I got into it with a 'increase the beer tax to prevent teen drinking' advocate on a local talk show a month ago.

I told him this.
My two boys lived at home when they turned 18, the legal ago then.
They drank Killians, Heinekens, and other costly beers while I was drinking Pabst, Carlings, etc.
They have the money, a tax won't do jack ---.

It's all about getting more $$.

[ml/nj]

Why is it that every Liberal's solution to every problem (they see or create) is to raise some tax?

ML/NJ (Maybe they can only apply the tax to people under 14?)

[Billthedrill]

Tax beer? That is wrong on so many levels that is difficult to know where to begin. How else will we induce people to watch athletic events, for instance?

If we tax beer, THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON!