Thank god I don't live in Oregon

[vlap]

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...0.beer.tax.kgw

YIKES!!!

 

[dionysus]

That's nothing, try living in Canada. A 12 pack of Molson's is about $25

 

[vlap]

More reasons to stay in florida!

 

[cruizer]

Man I would not even drive through that state!!!

 

[bmudd14474]

Oregon is a give and take state. For example there is no sales tax. So if ou buy 20k worth of stuff that would save you 1000.00 @5% sales tax. So if you buy 52 6 packs a year you would pay 104 dollars more on the tax but all in all you still save 896 bucks.

 

[vlap]

There may not be a sales tax but they are getting the funds in one way or another. This is one such case.

Please don't take my original comment to seriously though. I don't have any problem with the state or the people who live there. I was just in shock over a tax increase of %1,900. Thats pretty steep.

and what if I purchase 20,000 in beer?

 

[blacklab]

LMAO!!!
Dosen't surprise me I live 10min north of PDX. All you ever here about is there money problems. But yet their going to raise taxes for drug addicts

Every school year their making major cuts on education or closing schools. No child left behind yeah right.

 

[bmudd14474]

Its a interesting state. Not sure California is much better

. When I lived in MD they did this same thing to smokers. A pack of smokes went from 2 bucks to 5 bucks a pack over night. Made me glad i wasnt a smoker. Atleast that kind of smoker.

 

[badger]

I live in Calif. and some politician recently proposed a similar tax on beer but it got shot down, thankfully.
A great reason to become a homebrewer. I started brewing my own about 3 years ago. It's fun and I get to drink and share the results.
Cheers,
JB

 

[travcoman45]

As more en more people quit smokin er cut back there gonna loose tax dollars, gonna make em up somewhere, just the beginin at the taxes goin up on stuff, not just in oregon, gonna happen everwhere. All this money gotta come from somebody, wanna guess who it gonna be?

 

[john dice]

Good thing most of my friends enjoy to home brew. But that would hit a lot of people hard here in Oregon, I cannot see this passing.

 

[richoso1]

Ditto... the man has it figured out.

 

[jdoe44]

It sounds like they're increasing the tax on breweries who brew in the state of oregon.

If that kind of crap spreads and they're able to take $49/barrel from licensed breweries, they'll go after homebrewers too, and it'll be just like 'revenuers' chasing hillbilly shine distillers.

 

[jimr]

That just means it gets passed on to the consumer......you and me!!!
Although I am not from Oregon

 

[jdoe44]

True, but if a local Oregonian beer has a $49/bbl tax on it, and a beer trucked in from any other state or country only has a $2-$5/bbl tax on it, people can avoid the tax by purchasing beers brewed elsewhere. That will in turn drive down sales of beer brewed in Oregon and either put breweries out of business, or drive brewers out of state.

Also, if they look at homebrewing as lost income, they'll heavily tax and regulate or even eliminate legal homebrewing within Oregon.

 

[gotoleep]

If the consumption of alcohol and tobacco decreased by half, a lot of programs would go broke. Think about that. The actions that we are reprimanded for partaking of are the actions that pay for a lot of these programs.