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Tax my beer and cigarettes? Not without a fight

Posted by admin | News | Posted on March 25th, 2009

The News Review:

- Tax my beer and cigarettes? Not without a fight
- Pacifico Beer Launches New 7 oz. Bottles
- Texas liquor agency knocks down last barrier to Six Flags alcohol …
- Gluten-free beers on the rise

Tax my beer and cigarettes? Not without a fight
The Associated Press
(AP) — Faced with huge budget holes states from Connecticut to Arkansas are eyeing higher taxes on cigarettes and booze infuriating consumers who say the goods are the last vices they’ve got to help cope with lost jobs a deepening recession and overall economic misery. In Pittsburgh protesters dumped beer and liquor into a river after county officials approved a 10 percent tax on poured drinks. Patrons in regon bars downed brews while writing lawmakers to oppose a proposed beer tax increase. And in Kentucky protesters poured bourbon on the Capitol’s front steps to demonstrate their opposition to a 6 percent sales tax on all booze. “The way things are going right now with the economy the first thing people want to do is go get a bottle or a beer and soak their sorrows” said Jack Weaver of Louisville who gathered with other Teamsters in a union hall last month to rail against Kentucky lawmakers who voted to raise the taxes as of April 1. Sin tax increases to help balance budgets are nothing new but the economic meltdown has legislators proposing them even in states like Kentucky where alcohol and cigarettes have long been sacred cows.

Pacifico Beer Launches New 7 oz. Bottles
FXBusiness
The new packages are launching in early April in primarily West coast markets where the beer was first discovered by surfers bringing it back from surf trips in Baja California Mexico. Launch markets include California Nevada regon Idaho Washington Texas and Louisiana.

Texas liquor agency knocks down last barrier to Six Flags alcohol …
Dallas Morning News
com ARLINGTN — A 15-month fight about whether to allow beer sales at Six Flags ver Texas and Hurricane Harbor is over. Sharon Parker a Six Flags spokeswoman said beer sales would start Saturday which is the next day that the park is open. Hurricane Harbor will sell beer when it opens its season May 16.

Gluten-free beers on the rise
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“I’ve been through diabetes growing up and then to find out about celiac it was just like ‘here we go again. ‘” Social situations presented the biggest challenge. “My friends say ‘Just try a sip of this new beer I got’” says Powers who loved to drink dark full-bodied brews prior to his diagnosis. Because most beer contains wheat or barley he had to decline. “There went my beer hobby” he laments. As awareness of celiac disease has risen in the U.
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