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From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:
The Center for Science in the Public Interest urges you to tell your legislator to stand up to the beer lobby by opposing H.R. 1610: a bill that would slash the federal excise tax on beer by 50%, to its 1951 level!
Please urge your legislator to stand up to the beer lobby by opposing this bill.
Ask him or her instead to consider a well-justified increase in alcohol taxes to provide needed funds for children's health care and other domestic spending priorities.
Beer-industry representatives will be in Washington, D.C. this month hoping to cash in on some $3.3 million in campaign contributions during the last election cycle and add co-sponsors to the beer-tax rollback bill.
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Posted on April 10, 2007 10:57 PM
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