At our morning meeting, our company CEO brought this to our attention. Why should you of florida care? Because any beer that you buy, from any place will be that much more pricey.
THIS IS NOT A JOKE. THIS IS NOT A LARK. THIS IS NOT FUNNY!
I am breaking my posts up so that they are not eaten. Why should you care? Because the increase in tax will affect any one that deals with beer. EVERYONE. Every bar, c-store, diner, etc. According to my boss, this happened in the 90ies and it was brutal. With how things are now, he believes it will be far worse. The tax will increase the cost by about 20-30%, and reduce the sales by an equal amount. Ponder that. A loss of 20% in sales. This will mean that we will need to cut back on every level. Our CEO told us that 1 in 5 of us at the meeting would not be there if this goes through.
This loss will also hit others beyond us, the salesman and wholesalers. Many of your local bars WILL go under. If the you can not afford to buy the beer, you will not go. this means that the servers, bartenders, owners, etc make less money. If they, the owners, can not make it, they will cut back. Hours, jobs, benifits.
What can you do? If you are going out this night or the next, TELL YOUR PEOPLE ABOUT THIS!! RIGHT NOW!! Tell them to call their senator or write and TELL THEM NOT TO DO IT!! Your action may save the job of your local beer man, server or bartender.
The Florida wholesalers As. is requesting every wholesaler to generate 5 calls and 10 letters by close of monday, and as many as possible by the end of the week. Tell you local hangouts, your bars, your taverns, everyone. Write, call, email...send smoke signals!! If you do not think that this will happen, go and try to buy a pack of smokes. That tax hike is in effect now!!
There would be riots in Texas if they did this.
Brother, there may well be riots here soon!
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There would be riots in Texas if they did this.Brother, there may well be riots here soon!
Fight the Power, Brother!
Don't forget to go to a "Tea Party" if they have one near you. The dutifully elected criminals of this country's government need to learn this:
It isn't their money.
We aren't freaking aphids to be milked by their ant colony. We are NOT a unlimited source of money that can be squandered on wasteful programs and kickbacks to campaign donors.
We ARE robbing our children. If you have kids, and you voted for ANY of these people, look your kid in the eye and say "I'm sorry we did this to you".
The status must definitely NOT remain "quo". WE have the power. The damned Constitution starts with "We, the People...", not "We, the privileged, pompous, self-important encephalitic morons dwelling in the Hallowed Halls of Government...".
Vote EVERY ONE OF THESE FOOLS OUT (both parties). We don't need a term limit law, we, the People need to get our collective heads out of our asses.
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Rant away!
just a post to keep this near the top.
Should dress up like... politicians.. and hijack any truck that is shipping an alcoholic product and dump that in the sea. or on the ground.
It worked once.. maybe it could work again.
Please.. it's florida. What good beer are they contributing?
Please.. it's florida. What good beer are they contributing?Zing!
Hehehe.I say go with the skeleton and homebrew!
They'll just up the taxes on beer kits then, either that or make it illegal to make your own beer. Or impose a tax stamp you must buy to place on your homebrew ....The government is very inventive when it comes to collecting our money.
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They'll just up the taxes on beer kits then, either that or make it illegal to make your own beer. Or impose a tax stamp you must buy to place on your homebrew ....The government is very inventive when it comes to collecting our money.
oh nah, you taxers are decent folks :P
ours are the death :Pthey wuld tax the oxygen we breath if they could find a way to measure it...
They'll just up the taxes on beer kits then, either that or make it illegal to make your own beer. Or impose a tax stamp you must buy to place on your homebrew ....The government is very inventive when it comes to collecting our money.oh nah, you taxers are decent folks :P
ours are the death :P
they wuld tax the oxygen we breath if they could find a way to measure it...
That would suck... you'd not work out because you'd breathe more.. but once you got big and fat and lazy.. you'd breathe more just walking.
It'd be a hard balance.
The Florida wholesalers As. is requesting every wholesaler to generate 5 calls and 10 letters by close of monday, and as many as possible by the end of the week. Tell you local hangouts, your bars, your taverns, everyone. Write, call, email...send smoke signals!! If you do not think that this will happen, go and try to buy a pack of smokes. That tax hike is in effect now!!
Would this also impact tourism?
While no one (except during Spring Break) goes to Florida to drink beer, paying more for it when they are down there would cut into what they can spend on other products.
So not only do tourist buy less beer, they end up buying less of everything else. (Won't bother the state directly as they would get the same taxes, but it would harm the rest of the state economy.)
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There's only one thing to do for you Floridians......Homebrew!They will tax the hell out of the equipment and ingredients if too many people start to homebrew. Worst they’ll pass a law making it illegal to share your homebrew with your friends.
In that case, there are two other choices:
- vote a new, more beer-friendly bunch of corrupt politicians into office, or
- move to another, more beer-friendly state.