Yes, pay more to protect youth
Thanks for your courageous stand on increasing the beer tax. But let’s not stop at a few pennies per beer. That would hardly start to pay off the annual $5 billion tab for alcohol-related health, social, and legal problems in Wisconsin.
Another reason for a higher tax is that increasing the price of alcohol is the single most effective way to decrease binge drinking by young people. Such drinking in itself causes harm, and for teenagers it poses risk for lifelong alcoholism.
A third reason is that stronger enforcement is only part of a comprehensive package to make our roads safer. In Wisconsin, three-fourths of intoxicated drivers involved in fatal crashes have never before been caught for drunken driving.