Ballot Question 1: Sales tax on Alcoholic Beverages

[rcweir]

The question is here: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepip10/pip101.htm

If passed, it would repeal the 6.25% sales tax on alcohol. I find the arguments against this to be specious. The argument given is that alchohol is not a necessary purchase so why should we give it a special exemption from taxation. But we don't, since alcohol is already covered by a special excise tax. So the question is, why should alcohol be taxed twice?

[Ghostdog]

Because if we don't we will have to lay off all the teachers, police and the entire fire dept. All the schools will have to close, all the roads will soon be covered with pot holes and all the bridges will crumble and fall. Locusts and other pestilence will swarm over the land in such great numbers even Billy The Exterminator will not be able to rid them. Its best that we keep that tax in place and make sure Bill Bulger keeps his quarter of a million dollar pension.