On a Sunday morning’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous,” George Will said “old” George “read my lips” President George H.W. Bush in 1991 helped bring about a luxury tax on a barrel of beer, doubling it to $18 from $9, costing poor, old Joe Six-Pack an extra $1.35 a case.
Well now, if Joe drank a case of beer a day, in a month it would cost him an extra $40.
Wow! That’s a lot.
George Will also said doctors tell us beer is a health food, so the tax should be removed.
I would like to ask: Is beer like a glass of orange juice or a vitamin pill? I always was told beer has alcohol in it, like wine and whiskey.
And isn’t alcohol a drug like aspirin instead of a health food like orange juice?
Since beer, wine and whiskey have 7 percent or greater alcohol content going into people’s bloodstream, only a “social-logically-challenged” person could think they are good for you.
Danny W. Shultz
East Brady R.D. 1