So how many hours extra a year must I work to support craft brewers and what business is it of the Feds to interfere with every minutia of the “free” market. I certainly dont feel so free.
As Budweiser is losing market share to these many micro breweries I am sure they are spending large to try to have this go away.
I know they worked for decades to hinder the Micro Brew industry here in Florida.
Eliminate the excise on all beer.
There are upwards of 50 craft breweries in my city and hundreds in the state. It is a niche industry but not a sacred cow.
And quite a few of the larger craft breweries are selling out to Big Beer’s monopolies because they see it as a golden parachute.
I like a good beer as much as the next fella, but there’s nothing worse than a craft beer snob. Even worse, a millennial craft beer snob. If your hobby is tasting beers at all these micro breweries that’s fine, more power to you. But I get tired of hearing how great the beer is compared to a simple Bud Light, etc. I don’t drink Bud Light, but why would I give a shit if other people like Bud Light?
As for the tax issues...yeah it sucks. But if the taxes exist they should have to pay them like every other business does. Taxes should be cut further across the board for all businesses. My company of about 150 employees gets hammered by taxes but we do our best.
I’ll go back to sipping my Guinness now...
I just posted the request to Contact the Whitehouse. Craft breweries tend left...making it visible with PDJT backing would be something the craft beer folks would remember in the voting booth.
The craft breweries in the U.S. have been growing very well for many years, before the 2017 change in the taxes they pay. At most, my guess is that the tax advantage helped the weaker ones that would not have been successful without the extra tax breaks that craft breweries had not had before.
///Jim McGreevy with The Beer Institute said it reduced the federal excise tax for brewers and aided the industry’s explosive growth.
“Allowed them to spend the money innovating in their brewery, rehabbing their physical plants, building out their physical plant,” McGreevy said.
Cheston said she was able to hire a new part-time employee. But the two year tax break runs out at the end of 2019. Supporters urge Congress to extend it or make it permanent./////
Here we have another case of LOWER TAXES MEANS STRONGER BUSINESSES able to help their communities.
Craft beer was "new" some years ago. It has taken off in a big way. They seem to be everywhere now. They are trendy. They are hip. They are part of our culture. Magazines are devoted to the topic.
If the industry cannot survive now without government assistance, then it just deserves to die.
Congress must stop giving tax breaks to special interests.
The tax code is full of special tax breaks for some, and other benefits for others. This makes people fearful of losing their special privileges, and makes them support the people in power.
People don’t realize that their special privilege costs other people money. They don’t realize that they are paying for all those other special privileges.
No one benefits from this system, except the corrupt congresspersons who devised the system.
No time, got impeachin’ to do.
Good or Bad this Congress don’t do nuffin , period
Tax breaks for me but not for thee?
Reminds me of how Hollywood filming in States with big tax breaks, then the actors in those films saying taxes should be higher.
Government isn’t supposed to be investors using taxpayer monies. Kill this grifting.
At the very beginning of the video, did that woman just introduce wild yeast into the wort when she pulled the lid off the fermentation vat?
I like to sip an IPA once or twice a week. Devil Anse and Short Story Brewing Fast Foreword are a few of my favorites.
It wouldn’t break me to pay another dollar everytime I had a beer, and I’m not sure why my beer should be treated any differently under the tax code than a set of tires.
Come to think of it I like Fat Tire too. :)
“...Hipster liberals hardest hit...”
If it hasn’t been brewed for 300 years, it’s not beer yet.