From kgw.com:
Five Oregon state lawmakers want to impose a hefty tax on beer and have introduced a bill that brewers say would cripple them.
Basically, these lawmakers are claiming that alcoholism costs Oregon over $13 billion annually (assumption on my part, as the article gives no indication of how these costs are broken down time-wise), so they’re justified in a 1900% tax on beer. 1900%! How does driving companies out of business get the state’s finances back in the black?
Based on this line of logic, expect anything you can be addicted to, which is pretty much everything, to come up for similar tax considerations.
