Legislators seek to tax San Diego California beer, using DUI as indirect source
San Diego DUI Attorney beer tax story
April 29, 2008
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Assemblyman Jim Beall (D-San Jose) proposed a tax on beer makers that would add anywhere from 5 cents to $1.80 to the price of a gallon of beer to help eliminate the state's budget deficit, and some people, including San Diego DUI Attorneys, are already showing their disapproval.
"Picketers outside of San Jose came to picket my office last week," Beall said.
San Diego DUI Lawyers are told the people came from Santa Cruz and San Francisco.
Young Democrats came and asked the pickets how they would balance the budget, San Diego DUI Attorneys heard.
"We have a state budget deficit," Beall said. "Do we want people that drink alcohol to pay for some of the costs dealing with problems created by drinking alcohol? Or do we want the general public with general taxes to pay for all of it?"
San Diego DUI Attorneys are told the tax on beer has stayed at 20 cents per gallon since 1991, but if it was adjusted for inflation it would be at 31 cents.
"One reason why the alcohol tax hasn't been raised since 1991," Beall said, "is because alcohol businesses have a very strong lobby in Sacramento. They spent $3 million in 2006, lobbying legislature to oppose any taxes on alcohol business.
"The tax would generate up to $2 billion a year," San Diego DUI Attorneys heard from Beall, "and would be used for alcohol-related programs that would reduce binge drinking, underage drinking and driving under the influence."
In 2005, alcohol-related traffic accidents killed 1,574 people and injured 30,810 in California, and alcohol played a role in 3,691 deaths statewide in 2004, according to the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, San Diego DUI / Drunk Driving Lawyers understand.
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