Drinkers Still Pay Flood Relief Tax Enacted In 1936 POSTED: 1:49 am EDT July 12, 2005 UPDATED: 10:43 am EDT July 12, 2005 LANCASTER, Pa. -- A natural disaster that happened 70 years ago is still taxing Pennsylvania alcohol sales. That tax is not going anywhere anytime soon. In March 1936, three days of rain and runoff from melting snow led to the second of three great floods that has hit Johnstown, Pa. Two dozen people died and the state immediately set out to help the city recover. That recovery plan involved a 10 percent temporary tax that was placed...
