Posted by skelly on 05/31/09Last updated 05/31/09
This bill is intended to pre-emptively reduce taxes on brewers before legislators have a chance to raise taxes on them to pay for the Obama administration's spendy goals (i.e. national healthcare).
The so-called BEER Act would amend the Internal Revenue Code to:
- reduce from $18 to $9 ( the pre-1991 level) the per-barrel tax on beer
- allow a further reduction in such tax for brewers who produce not more than 2 million barrels annually
With 70 breweries in 2008, Michigan is the 6th largest brewing state in the Union (2008 data):
| Number of Breweries |
State |
| 221 |
CA |
| 103 |
CO |
| 100 |
WA |
| 93 |
OR |
| 75 |
PA |
| 70 |
MI |
| 66 |
WI |
| 56 |
NY |
| 42 |
OH |
| 41 |
IL |
Our representatives should be all over this bill!!
Fortunately, we have seven of our 15 legislators joining 175 other co-sponsors (total 182 as of this writing), but where are the other eight? A list of Michigan co-sponsors as of this writing is shown below (those not yet signed on listed with a "?"):
Rep Stupak, Bart [MI-1] - 4/2/2009
Rep Hoekstra, Peter [MI-2] - 2/26/2009
MI-3?
MI-4?
Rep Kildee, Dale E. [MI-5] - 3/5/2009
Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] - 3/5/2009
MI-7?
Rep Rogers, Mike J. [MI-8] - 3/12/2009
MI-9?
Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] - 4/23/2009
Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] - 4/30/2009
MI-12?
MI-13?
MI-14?
MI-15?
If your representative is not listed above, PLEASE write to them and urge them to support this bill!
A related bill, S.1058, was just introduced in the senate, which as of now only has six co-sponsors. I don't see Levin or Stabenow yet. Write them!
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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Posted 05/31/09
nperrino
Elmhurst, IL | Awesome, hopefully this will bring the cost of beer down also. |
Posted 06/01/09
Break your chains
Byron, GA | Seeing that a bill to outlaw the mailing of tobacco just passed the House 397 to 11 (with 25 present/not-voting), the odds of this happening are very slim.
Sadly. |
Posted 06/01/09
skelly
Clarkston, MI | @chains: Well, there are 182 co-sponsors of this one, that seems positive? Re: tobacco in the mail -- Looks like you a referring to HR2932? |
Posted 06/05/09
skelly
Clarkston, MI | Another MI cosponsor yesterday:
Rep Schauer, Mark H. [MI-7] - 6/4/2009
That's 50% of MI... |
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