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a tool to highlight the hypocrisy of tax hikers
Constitutional or statutory requirement to rein in growth of revenues end expenditures
a commitment made by elected officials and candidates for elected office never to raise taxes
Raising the bar for tax increases
Requiring a cool-off period for all bills with a fiscal impact
pork-barrel spending - the broken windows of the budget
Tax Bites - Distilled Spirits
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Another target of the “sin tax”- loving legislators is distilled spirits. Taxes on distilled spirits are among the highest taxes imposed on any product. Nearly 80 percent of what you pay for a bottle goes to the government in taxes rather than for the liquor. At an average price of $13.10 for a 750mL bottle of 80 proof spirits, this amounts to the government stirring in $10.43 to your total at the register.
The federal excise tax pours $2.14 into the average cost of a 750 ml bottle, or about 16 percent of the $13.10. Then the median state excise taxes add another $3.75 to the same bottle. And because distilled spirits producers must pay federal and state income taxes, federal payroll taxes, property taxes and other taxes, these costs are passed on to consumers. These taxes tack on another $4.53 to the total price of a bottle of distilled spirits.
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