After reading your article I am left with the feeling that there is more to this topic than I originally thought….

Twelve fluid ounces (a Long-Neck) divided by 128 times $1.60 makes an increase on the tax of $.15 (fifteen cents) on the cost of a single Long Neck.

Two beers a day ($.30) times five working days per week is a buck and a half a week for one’s Brewski Habit.

Hardly worth buying a new trash can and the yeast…

http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/24166.html
Allegheny County Judge Judith Olson issued an injunction against the county on Friday which limits the use of the county’s alcoholic drink tax revenue exclusively to Port Authority projects. This means that county officials will not be allowed to use any of the revenue to fund road or bridge projects.

I raise vegies and fruit in the SF Bay Area. I am thinking about water barrels to catch rain, but my house is on a hill and the rain barrels would be at lower elevation than the crops. What do you mean by ‘shallow well points?’

I suspect we’re going to see a lot more of these taxes slide in. I think I read 61 cents on cigs [to fund the children's insurance program]. And at the beginning of the year, my state started an Ammunition Responsibility Tax. It’s a nominal fee [right now] 10 cents on every individual purchase. But taxes tend to go up, not down.

We’re going to have pay for all this spending at some point. I understand the Calif. legislature couldn’t come through with a tax plan and consequently, will be laying off between 10,000-20,000 state employees.

The money has to come from someplace. Nobody likes taxes but you can’t shut down everything.

I have a problem with junk that nobody tells you about, or markets it as something “good” but it’s really bad..

Atkins diet for example…sure, you lose weight, but your arteries clog up from all that other stuff.

Cigs and drugs are not the same thing…smoke hurts others nearby, for example and drugs have all sorts of societal costs.

The “don’t let the govt tell me what to do” has limits. Some of us want to know what’s in our bodies and want the producers to HAVE to tell us what they put in their product.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to re-enforce the old idea that alcoholism is a “moral” issue. It’s NOT. It is a disease. And of course, I realize as well that not all people who drink are alcoholics but those who do choose to drink “poison” should pay for it because those who do not drink pay for it with our insurance rates!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ12Ry-hD6I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6bsDZM6IY

We call for all financial and insurance institutions to be socially owned and operated by a democratically-controlled national banking authority, which should include credit unions, mutual insurance cooperatives, and cooperative state banks. In the meantime, we call for re-regulation of the banking and insurance industries.

Also familiar in an unsettling way.

WOW! What a small world. In the first years of my grandparent’s life here in America they lived in a fenced and gated colony. Everyone worked for the man who owned it, he paid people in script, and they had to use the script to buy groceries and other goods. Talk about a racket. It was the goal of everyone there to get another job and move out. But it was a job and a house for an immigrant.

Great food from Hungry, by the way….paprikash, cabbage rolls. Makes me hungry.