CSPI: Tell Congress: Increase Alcohol Taxes, Don't Cut ThemApril 10, 2007
Action Alert
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
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Big Beer is at it again, pushing a self-serving bill (H.R. 1610) to enrich its bottom line by slashing the federal excise tax on beer by 50%, to its 1951 level!
Please urge your legislator to stand up to the beer lobby by opposing this bill. Ask him or her instead to consider a well-justified increase in alcohol taxes to provide needed funds for children's health care and other domestic spending priorities.
Beer-industry representatives will be in Washington, D.C. this month hoping to cash in on some $3.3 million in campaign contributions during the last election cycle and add co-sponsors to the beer-tax rollback bill.
Please encourage your Representative to oppose H.R. 1610 and instead support a long over-due increase in the federal excise tax on beer and all alcoholic beverages as a just and available revenue source to fund essential health care programs.
Contributor: Peggy Seo Oba
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