| SF Examiner: Letters from our Readers |
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August 19, 2010
Supervisor John Avalos wants to impose an alcohol tax to cover the cost of alcohol-related municipal services. But, a review of these costs by the San Francisco Department of Public Health showed that 225 repeat offenders account for $13.5 million of those costs — more than $60,000 per person every year. Is it fair to impose this tax on responsible drinkers when the problem is with a very small number of repeat offenders? There must be a better way to deal with these repeat offenders than to continue throwing so much money at the problem. We already know that current efforts have not eliminated the problem. David Fix, San Francisco |
Millions of your friends and neighbors, waiters, bartenders and small business owners who run your local hotels, bars and restaurants will have their jobs threatened this year as lawmakers propose to increase alcohol taxes. The last time Federal taxes were raised on alcohol, $1.3 billion in wages were lost and 98,000 people found themselves out of work.
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