[Just another Joe]

The makers of wine, beer and spirits should pay a fee to bolster California's sagging emergency care system and help bridge the state's massive budget gap, according to a state senator who introduced a bill Thursday to impose a 5-cents-a-drink fee.

Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, and hospital advocates say the fee would offset financial losses and budget cuts at emergency rooms, whose patients have often been injured in alcohol-related accidents and violence.

Which is it, Gloria?

It's unknown how much of that extra charge would be passed on to consumers.

It's UNKNOWN? BS, all of it would be passed on.

"At the end of the year, if there were no alcohol injuries, these dollars would be returned to the alcohol distributors

BWAHAHAHA

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"At the end of the year, if there were no alcohol injuries, these dollars would be returned to the alcohol distributors"

BWAHAHAHA

And I just saw The Tooth Fairy fly past my bedroom window.