Subby here, just trying to save 300 comments about my math. I know the numbers posted in the article do not work out to 1900%, but since it says "about $2.60", I took poetic license because 1900% sounded cool.

That's over $10 for a pony keg!
Insanity.

This wouldn't happen in Jefferson State.

/Just sayin'.

Ridiculously increased sin taxes? Welcome to the Alabama school of thought, Oregon.

What's wrong - not enough people buying hard liquor from their government stores?

Whoever votes for this should DIAF.

Why does Oregon hate white people?

/huh? what?
//doesn't care that the comment has no basis at all whatsoever
///just ran out of MT Dew
////Oh look...puppies

They're targeting the wrong demographic (in general). People don't typically get hammered on Rogue Shakespeare Stout, for example, and drive erratically home to beat their wives.

Therefore, they should levy the taxes on NASCAR beers.

Tea party, anyone? ;-)

Oregon plans 1900% increase in beer tax. Next up: stamp tax, immediately followed by revolution.

Has Rod Blagojevich landed in Oregon?...It sounds like one of his schemes.

It sounds scary, but $0.20/pint isn't that a big a deal considering you have no sales tax.

Heist: It sounds scary, but $0.20/pint isn't that a big a deal considering you have no sales tax.

Everyone laugh at the teetotaler that drinks pints.

Sam Jackson is Angry!!

There goes Beervana!

But i could only carry 100% back to the wagon.

Yes, there is nothing quite so useful in an economic downturn as massive tax increases.

/Yeah, I know people don't have to buy beer, but then you end up with unemployed beer manufacturers - a travesty!

Ow My Balls: They're targeting the wrong demographic (in general). People don't typically get hammered on Rogue Shakespeare Stout, for example, and drive erratically home to beat their wives.

Therefore, they should levy the taxes on NASCAR beers.

Not sure how they could get away with legally differentiating between the upscale beers and the mass produced beers. There might be a way, but then Coors, Miller, Bud, etc prolly have a metric-shiat-ton more lawyers than the lesser known brands and would get the legal difference thrown out the window.

Besides, I like Miller Lite too.

/down with ALL sin-taxes!
//Still can't buy beer on Sundays here either.
///fark you holier-than-thou busy-bodies...and liquor stores too (they're also against Sunday sales)
////pass me a beer

As a student of Economics.

As a drinker of beer, wine and spirits.

I would support this in my state.

Alcohol leads to societal costs, think car accidents, beaten wives, this means more cops.

Raise the tax to cover the cost.

/I love me my IPA

ptelg: As a student of Economics.

As a drinker of beer, wine and spirits.

I would support this in my state.

Alcohol Morons leads to societal costs, think car accidents, beaten wives, this means more cops.

Raise the tax to cover the cost.

/I love me my IPA

FIFY.

Alcohol doesn't lead to anything (except maybe a coyote fark every once in a while). It's the idiots that are irresponsible with alcohol that are the problem. Hence, do not punish the responsible. Cut straight to the chase and tax all idiots.

/not sure how that would pass congress tho.

dburr13: Has Rod Blagojevich landed in Oregon?...It sounds like one of his schemes.

That's a Stroger move, not a Blago move.

spencurai: Why does Oregon hate white people?

/huh? what?
//doesn't care that the comment has no basis at all whatsoever
///just ran out of MT Dew
////Oh look...puppies

HEH ....heh ....Now that is comentary Due a listining to ....

ptelg: As a student of Economics.

As a drinker of beer, wine and spirits.

I would support this in my state.

Alcohol leads to societal costs, think car accidents, beaten wives, this means more cops.

Raise the tax to cover the cost.

/I love me my IPA

So if you feel guilty then, why not save us all the trouble and write your own personal check to Salem?

staplermofo: Heist: It sounds scary, but $0.20/pint isn't that a big a deal considering you have no sales tax.

Everyone laugh at the teetotaler that drinks pints.

How else are you going to measure beer? In milliliters? Centiliters? The day I stop measuring my beer in pints is the day I stop drinking beer. Get out of here you commie scum.

As a former long-time resident of Oregon, I can tell you that this is probably the single best way to incite open revolution among the fine drunken and overly caffeinated people of Oregon.

/don't f*ck with my beer or my coffee.
//ever.

You guys should have another Boston Tea Party.

Except in Portland, not Boston. And with beer instead of tea. And you should drink it instead of throwing it in the harbour.

Fight the power! *hic*

dj245: How else are you going to measure beer? In milliliters? Centiliters? The day I stop measuring my beer in pints is the day I stop drinking beer. Get out of here you commie scum.

PONY KEGS! FULL KEGS! BARRELS!

Nobody buys a pint of beer at anything close to cost.

Ugh. Just RTFA and realized that they had talked to the Ninkasi guys. Holy god, they make some fine-ass beer. I would kill for an IPA right now.

/will settle for another shot of nigorizake.
//Japanese beer sucks.

There's no such state as Oregano.

That'll be $27.50, ma'am.

Outstanding! Soon (after all the people with anything to tax leave for other states) California will become a windswept desert populated by starving zombies consisting of illegal aliens, clueless movie stars, and brain dead politicians.

Oregon now has a good start on doing the same.

My plan is working. Soon, only Washington will need to be "restructured" free of intelligent life. And I'm really not too sure that much work is necessary there.

And then the entire west coast will return to virgin wilderness.

Heist: It sounds scary, but $0.20/pint isn't that a big a deal considering you have no sales tax.

Do you know how to boil a live frog?

//Still worth it

bookman:

And then the entire west coast will return to virgin wilderness.

Except for the zombies. Don't forget the zombies.

ptelg:
Alcohol leads to societal costs, think car accidents, beaten wives, this means more cops.

We should bring back Prohibition. Totally ban alcohol, just as we have totally banned pot and hard drugs.

Oh, cigarettes and cigars, too.

And chewing tobacco.

And foods that are bad for you.

Total regimentation, yeah, that's the ticket.

12.fl.oz.: Why don't they just get it over with and outlaw everything you can consume except fresh vegetables out of your own garden.

Those need to be taxed, citizen!

RadiomanATL: bookman:

And then the entire west coast will return to virgin wilderness.

Except for the zombies. Don't forget the zombies.

Well, that's the idea. Virgin wilderness, populated by zombies.

Great hunting territory.

You could assign points based on name recognition....

If you were in favor of raising taxes on tobacco products because "smoking is bad" just quit your biatching.

bookman:

Well, that's the idea. Virgin wilderness, populated by zombies.

Great hunting territory.

You could assign points based on name recognition....

Oh, very well then. Sounds like fun.

RadiomanATL: ////pass me a beer

Here...Have a homebrew!

its needs a tax considering the damage it does to people and society.

how many alcoholics in america now??????

Not from my cold, dead, drunken hands.

bookman: We should bring back Prohibition. Totally ban alcohol, just as we have totally banned pot and hard drugs.

Oh, cigarettes and cigars, too.

And chewing tobacco.

And foods that are bad for you.

Total regimentation, yeah, that's the ticket.

What are you crazy??? Do you know how much revenue that would be? Government needs all those horrible things badly so they can get money from one group of people and give it to another and look like they care.

I suspect the dirty little fingers of MADD to be involved with this somehow.

Let's say you went out three times a week drinking. You had 10 pints each time. (You're an alcoholic hardcore!) That's $2 per night out, and $6 per week. While I'm not an advocate of a bunch of new taxes, 1900% makes it sound like beer will become out of the the price range of the average person.

Linux_Yes: its needs a tax considering the damage it does to people and society.

how many alcoholics in america now??????

Yeah, punish everyone for the actions of the stupid.

Linux_Yes: its needs a tax considering the damage it does to people and society.

how many alcoholics in america now??????

Maybe they should also tax the bridge you crawled out from under.

Money generated would create the Alcohol Impact Remediation fund, which would distribute funds to various agencies that address treatment and recovery programs for about five seconds, before being shifted to some politician's pet project.

/I don't mind taxes to cover the social costs of alcohol, but I think $25 per keg is just a wee bit over-inflated.
//The State of Jefferson is looking better and better.

Oregonians are damn proud of their hand-crafted, brewed-in-small-batches specialty beers. Oregonians are THE biggest beer snobs in the USA, and rightfully so. If you order a Budweiser in an Oregon bar, everyone looks at you like a cross between some alien that just landed and a heathen.

20 years ago, when they decided to toss out a Portland mayor they hated, who did they vote in? A bartender. That's Oregon.

With that in mind, this idea is going to go down in Oregon like the ideas of "pump your own gas" and "sales tax" - ain't gonna happen.