Higher beer taxes = poorer Penn students
Angela Hu
In honor of Fling weekend, when I know levels of readership are so low that it’s only second to Spring Break, here is a lighthearted but real post on rising beer prices.
Many places around the world and some states in the U.S. have been considering hiking up excise taxes on beer and/or alcohol. An excise tax is a euphemism for a sales tax on specific items, often ones that the government would rather see you not partake in, such as alcohol and cigarettes.
This means that when you buy beer in one of these places, the price that you pay for the whole shebang just got higher, which leaves you, the student in want of beer, poorer.
Roll call of some places where beer just got more expensive or may get more expensive pending future legislation after the jump.
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