Maryland’s first alcohol tax increase in 39 years easily passed the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee in a 9-4 vote, putting an extra 3% sales tax on all purchases of beer, wine and liquor. The new tax will go up 1% a year for the next three years, raising an estimated $88 million by fiscal 2016, with some of the money going to public schools.
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Glad i live close to Deleware!!
ReplyDeleteMaryland Stinks more every day!
user fees. i have to pay to park at the shorebirds games no. you can pay to drink. or smoke. user fees are a fair way to tax. you have a choice. i choose not to drink.
ReplyDeleteshould be the same with taxes for education. i chose not to have kids. my parents have more than paid for my education at 80 years old, and i not willing to pay for someone elses kids education.
you have kids, you use the school system, you pay for it. stay out of my pockets.
Tell them boys I will be driving to Delaware to buy my beer! They have already run 15% of the wealthy out of this state in the past few years. Thinking of moving myself. They keep raising taxes and people keep moving, going out of business, buying in Delaware etc. who are they going to tax to support all the nonworkers and how high will the taxes be?
ReplyDeleteIt is NOT a 3% tax, it is a 50% increase in the alcohol tax from 6% to 9%. It's like when the sales tax was increased from 5% to 6%. It was billed as a 1% tax increase when it was actually a 20% increase.
ReplyDeleteI don't buy anything in MD anymore unless I cant find it in Delaware. O'Malley and the dems want to tax everything. I heard a commercial on WICO talk radio that they want to tax your paper or plastic bags you use at the grocery store. Ridiculous.
ReplyDelete"with some of the money going to public schools"
ReplyDeleteThe politicians are at it again. HOW MUCH of the money is going to public schools?
Thought all the lottery money was supposed to fund schools.
Then they divert it to general revenue.
I wonder if O'Malley is trying to raid the Chesapeake Bay Fund again this year to balance the budget.
Home Brew is the answer
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