There's a vote today on the Alcohol Sales tax - I hope it doesn't go away. That's probably a good chunk of change that Massachusetts needs. The justification "Alcohol already has an excise tax paid" is silly - that tax is paid by the brewers when they manufacture or import. It's paid to the feds and to the state of manufacture. Since the majority of alcohol sales come from non-mass locales, we lose out on a lot of alcohol revenue. Plus, it almost guarantees that the $10,000 bond paid by a brewer will either stay the same, or increase. This makes creating new breweries and brewery related jobs even more difficult to establish for those of us who are "little guys."
Just some musings.
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