Proposed wine tax

[Jerry D Mead]

And the spirits industry has been campaigning for years for so-called tax "equivalency," which means raising wine and beer taxes to the level of spirits. It's the reason they run all those "a drink is a drink is a drink" ads featuring a picture of a wine glass, a beer glass and a shot glass.

If passed we would be virtually the only civilized nation to tax wine at the same level as spirits.

JDM