Its looks like San Jose didn't pay attention to what happened in Chicago with their bottled water tax.

Warning to San Jose: People will go out of their way to avoid a tax if they can. And the people you're hurting are the beer sellers in your city who will experience decreased sales.

I travel approximately 30 miles round trip to go to the Indian reservation in NY to buy cartons of cigarettes and fill up the car with gas while I'm there. There's NO WAY I'm paying the cigarette taxes in NY. Elliott Spitzer threatened many times to find a way to tax non-Indians who go to the reservations. Hmmm, I wonder how that worked out for him?  

I read this article, on Drudge, and to me the money quote is:

""The people who use alcohol should pay for part of the cost to society, just like we've accepted that concept with tobacco," Beall said." 

Just like we've "accepted" that concept with tobacco?  Some of us have never "accepted" that concept and realize it's just another way for the government to scam people out of tax money.  Let's save the children.  Let's get money for all those health care expenses the smokers are forcing us to pay. They actually get away with stuff because the media has allowed their statements to be accepted as fact.

I also noticed, further down, that a critic of the legislator wouldn't pin him down as a kook, he had to say his heart was in the right place, etc. 

The problem with California is they've become a bunch of sheep out there.  The liberals tell them to ban smoking in a town and the sheep don't think beyond that to what are they going to ban next.  Non-smokers had better get wise because, once smoking is a thing of the past, the nazis are going after something else, until they mold our society into the one they want to live in.

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

How long before there is a taxpayers' revolt in the Golden State?

"women and minorities hardest hit"

California Dems are infamous for proposing (and enacting) "special taxes" on "luxury" items, especially politically incorrect ones. I wouldn't be surprised to see a proposed "furniture tax" to fund head injury research and treatment programs because a "study" has shown people fall and hit their heads on coffee tables.

Beer tax = revolt...

This may be the one thing that will push people over the edge. You can mess with almost anything, but there are two things in a mans life that you don't mess with... His Mother and his Beer! 

"Abstain from McCain"

This is how the tax racket works: You enact some sort of "sin tax", and promise to use it to cure some imaginary problem:  "for the children", "for the poor", or, better yet, "for the poor children". When people avoid the tax, you complain that the program isn't getting enough money, and raise the tax. It has worked for the govt schools for a long time now.

Testing testing...making sure this site is staying up before I attempt to repost what I had posted and was hitting the preview button before this went down again like it did earlier this week...anybody else have trouble a bit ago?

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

This is another good thing about homebrewing.

I make great, microbrew in any style I want and don't have to pay the beer-tax since all I'm buying is grains, hops and yeast!

Plus it's cheaper than buying bottled beer!

 Jimmy Cater did one good thing in his term...signed a bill allowing people to brew beer without taxing them or requiring a license.  If it's under 200 gallons per year.

Of course no one checks to see how much is actually brewed ;)

double post

Has anybody heard anything new on this...or anything about it recently?

Far as I am concerned, always have felt for various reasons from the beginning of letting the world know we were going to go to war with Saddam this is what did happen to the WMD's, let alone a book one of Saddam's close men wrote about helping to transfer them, I think his name was George Sada or Dada...he flew WMD's to Syria, just didn't know where they ended up or what they were exactly (plus the msm with the exception of Fox refused to have him on)...plus the so-calledRussian convoy that was filmed going towards Syria... time will tell eventually, I have read the reason bush has kept from saying anything about this is Russia and the help we need from them regarding Iran via votes in the UN and such.

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill