$182.5 Billion Alcohol Tax Proposed to President Obama

<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>[https://d3dkdvqff0zqx.cloudfront.net/groups/mi/images/c_budget_capitol.jpg]<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx><http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>Tell Congressional leaders, President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that an alcohol excise tax increase of $182.5 billion over ten years is a major step back from the edge of the fiscal cliff.<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>

Did you know that since 1991 Big Alcohol lobbying has resulted in our country losing $57 billion in revenue? Or that a new alcohol tax increase could help fill nearly 12% of the President's revenue portion of the nation's ten-year deficit reduction goal?

It's all true and it's time to tell our national leaders to hold Big Alcohol accountable and get them to pay their fair share while helping to reduce the deficit. The catastrophe of alcohol-related harm will be reversed with a 10 cent spirits tax increase, 15 cents on beer and 18 cents on wine.

<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>[https://d3dkdvqff0zqx.cloudfront.net/groups/mi/images/dime-a-drink.jpg]<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>Alcohol consumption annually costs American society 79,000 lives and $223.5 billion in harm of which government's share is $94.2 billion.<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>

Alcohol is unlike other products because consuming it causes great harm to the general public and great costs to government. Alcohol Justice believes that $182.5 billion in new alcohol tax revenue over ten years is a fair contribution to deficit reduction that will help the country avoid health and safety spending cutbacks.

Tell our federal officials now that alcohol taxes should be increased to reimburse government for some of the cost of alcohol-related health and public safety services.<http://action.alcoholjustice.org/link/target/mi/iF6q3Fcr.aspx>

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