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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Reversing the Erosion in Alcohol Taxes Could Help Pay for Health Care Reform
By Chuck Marr and Gillian Brunet

To help pay for health care legislation that extends health insurance to all Americans and slows the growth of health care costs, Congress should consider reversing the substantial real decline in recent decades in federal excise taxes on alcohol. This paper, which is part of a series of papers on proposals to help pay for health reform, outlines three options Congress could consider for increasing alcohol taxes that would raise $27 billion to about $100 billion over ten years. . . . . . .
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