New Hampshire Democrats Propose Passing the Highest Beer Tax in New England

Whenever you are sitting with ‘friends,” talking about what you could do to help create jobs and improve the economy in New Hampshire, I bet one of the first things you think of is instituting the highest beer tax in all of New England, right?

Well if you happen to be a New Hampshire Democrat that is exactly what you do.

HB 168 …would increase the excise tax on any beer that’s sold in New Hampshire to 40 cents per gallon, a 33% increase.

CBS Boston reports (WBZ) that this would surpass Maine’s 35 cents per gallon, making New Hampshire’s tax the highest in New England.

So if you were planning to cry in your beer over Obama raising your payroll taxes to 6.4%, or over New Hampshire Democrats adding a few hundred dollars a year to your electric bill to pay for their pointless carbon-credit scheme, be prepared to pay another tax to commiserate over being taxed.

But don’t you dare complain about how this tax increase will hit working families or have a depressing effect on local craft-breweries, who will probably lose sales, and maybe even have to cut staff.  Focus on how great it will be to raise taxes on stuff without any concern for any long term negative side-effects to the people, the state, or the economy.

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From The Harvard School Of Bud Light (Weare Campus)

The ongoing saga of Jon and Theonia Boyd seems to be coming to an end.  The Boyd's, both professors at Harvard, and residents of Massachusetts, were charged with facilitating an underage drinking party a a friends House in Weare when police arrived to discover the smartest people in the room had no idea there were 70 drunk minors celebrating the Bacchanalia under their slightly up turned noses.

The end result of this sad bit of theater. The Boyd's got the charges reduced to a no contest plea-which is not an admission of guilt, according to their attorney.  They are now in the process of refusing to pay $1500.00 to the town of Weare to offset costs incurred by local police called in to process party goers, and will probably walk away with nothing but their fines of $558.00 each, as reported by Greg Kwasnik in this mornings Union Leader.

So is there a lesson in all of this?  Yes.  Harvard isn't planning any action against them.  The Boyd's will escape without a police record.  And the fines are meaningless to a pair of Harvard Professors.

But the internet is forever, and minors who want to drink and not be bothered (until the police show up) know what kind of House parties to attend.

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