Op-Ed: Reduce All Beer Taxes

December 4, 2013Dear Client: Yesterday's op-ed by the New York Post Editorial Board (of all places) must have put a spring in the Beer Institute's step. The "beer industry is important -- and overtaxed" was a fitting 80th birthday offering for the 21st Amendment, which of course ended Prohibition. "Across America, taxes account for about 40 percent of your average brew," the piece pointed out. "One big reason is a federal excise tax imposed after Prohibition to discourage consumption." That's