New state tax?

[Kat Kanning]

Senator wants wholesale beverage tax
   

CONCORD ? A state senator is proposing a wholesale beverage tax to raise money for land conservation, aid to communities, drinking water programs and other state spending.

Sen. Dick Green estimates his tax will raise about $30 million on sales in New Hampshire alone during the next two years.

The tax would be applied at the wholesale level and would vary by the bottle size. Drinks up to 12 ounces would be taxed a penny; over 12 ounces and up to 128 ounces, 2 cents; and over 128 ounces, a nickel.

?This is not at the retail level,? said Green, R-Rochester. ?When it gets on the shelf, it?s already been taxed.?

The tax would apply to carbonated drinks, fruit juices and other drinks with water added to them and to bottled water. Milk and unmixed products would not be taxed.

The tax would not apply to beer and wine.

Green would dedicate 5 percent of the proceeds to the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program; 5 percent to communities as state aid; 10 percent to protect drinking water; and 80 percent to other state spending.

[Russell Kanning]

Their gunna tax by cokes and milk to pay for community heritage

[davemincin]

Yikes! ?More stick it to the folks! ?Word I get is Senator Green is a major RINO!
Thinking he should be one of the folks on our hit list for the next election. ?He's just up
the road from me.

Senator Esterbrook...OMG she is my Senator, and really loves to tell the folks what to do,
and spend their money too!

Oh well, guess part of we is going to have to be me.

Thinking if we continue doing what we are doing, and get some more helpers, we can really
have a major effect on the next election, and get rid of some of these anti-liberty folks.

What say you Keene folks, understand many of your elected officials, are not what you call real advocates for freedom.

[JonM]

Milk isn't subsidized so far as I know.  There have been government schemes to keep the milk price artificially higher than it should so that New England dairy farmers could "survive" competition.  I'm not sure what's been done since the northeast dairy compact expired though.

[davemincin]

great president....are you volunteering to head up the effort to stop having milk
be stolen?  Super, nice to see you getting involved!  Beats the hell out of talking ah?

If you need help in your effort please let us know.

[AlanM]

As far as I know, milk is subsidized with a guaranteed base price. The Feds will buy any milk you can't sell at or above the base price. Believe this is still in operation.

[AlanM]

Sen. Green was a BIG opponent of Benson. He considered running against him.

[Russell Kanning]

So we are not subsidized...the dairy industy is.

[tracysaboe]

The Fed has had price floors on Milk since FDR's time. Their was a store in Michigan a couple years ago that got in trouble for selling Milk too cheep.

Tracy

[Dave Ridley]

Well this might lend itself to a visual protest....dumping juiced in a river maybe?