“Rift between Democrats dooms this year’s alcohol tax push”
by Ted Alcorn and Trip Jennings, New Mexico in Depth
February 10, 2024
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Diana Tittle
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Somehow, raising the taxes on alcohol seems very ‘classist’. In other words, the rich get to drink while the poor have to get more poor in order to drink. Not to diminish the bad effects of alcohol abuse but this way only the wealthy will be able to afford to be a social problem while even moderate drinkers of the lower classes will be curtailed while the addicts with little money will be inclined to beg or steal or, maybe a few will seek treatment. Perhaps this would be less offensive if those taxes went for treatment options AND if taxes on the very rich were raised to the same proportional level as those on the poor. In any case, my cocktails are going to cost me more. Sin taxes have always been regressive and seldom achieve more than making the rich feel self-righteous!