Legislation to repeal the luxury tax on beer has been introduced to the 110th Congress in the form of S. 1995 by Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) and H.R 1610 by Congressmen Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and Phil English (R-PA).
As a basic matter of fairness, the time is long overdue to roll back the beer tax to its pre-1991 level. There is strong historical precedent for a rollback, since on four other occasions the federal beer tax was rolled back, after increases to pay for extraordinary war costs. Today, a rollback would correct a serious inequity, and at the same time could restore an estimated 50,000 jobs to the U.S. economy.
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on the history of this legislation and view the co-sponsors for the Roll Back the Beer Tax legislation.
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