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Ad Warning: Booze Tax May Cost Chicago Olympics
NBC ChicagoMay 26, 2009
A beverage trade organization is urging Gov. Pat Quinn to veto an alcohol tax increase currently awaiting his signature, suggesting that the tax hike could jeopardize Chicago's chance of hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Restaurant group decries Ill. liquor tax hike
Chicago TribuneMay 23, 2009
An association representing 300 Illinois restaurants is urging Gov. Pat Quinn to reject a liquor tax increase to pay for statewide construction.
Wisconsin State Journal covers ABI opposition to Beer Tax
Wisconsin State JournalMay 4, 2009
Wisconsin’s beer tax, flat for four decades, would be five times higher under a proposed bill.
D.C.-based Beverage Institute quick to dis proposed state alcohol tax increase
Minnesota PostApril 23, 2009
Here’s a shocker out of Washington, D.C.: The American Beverage Institute, which represents 140 Minnesota restaurants, is opposed to the alcohol tax increase being proposed by the House as part of the solution to balancing the state budget.
Proposed fee increases on alcohol a worry for Inland wineries
Press EnterpriseApril 23, 2009
After a similar idea pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was dropped earlier this year, a proposal to increase fees on producers of beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages is again making the legislative rounds in Sacramento.
D.C. group's ad blasts CIB drink tax proposal
Indianapolis StarApril 22, 2009
The Washington, D.C.-based American Beverage Institute has taken out an ad in today's Indianapolis Star encouraging Hoosiers to contact legislators and demand a "no" on boosting the alcohol tax to help the city's struggling Capital Improvement Board.
'Las Vegas: where you can't afford a drink'
Las Vegas Review-JournalMarch 23, 2009
Spending on travel and tourism declined last year for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Commerce Department reports. "As Americans canceled vacations, a strong dollar kept foreigners away and businesses slashed travel budgets," The Wall Street Journal reported last week.
Don’t make businesses pay for Albany’s excesses
Buffalo NewsMarch 23, 2009
According to a new survey, recession anxiety has crushed terrorism as America’s top panic. Millions of unemployed and struggling Americans have had to learn hard lessons in budgeting and thrift in order to rise to these economic challenges. But it appears that Gov. David A. Paterson has yet to do the same.
