IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT!!!!!!!

Congress is considering lowering taxes on beer! I think you will agree with me that this very well might be the most important thing our elected officials can do for us this year.

Apparently, the nanny state asshats disagree:

Beer Money In Congress In the 2005-2006 election cycle, beer-, wine- and liquor-industry interests gave federal candidates a combined total of more than $10 million. Of that amount, beer industry money accounted for more than two-thirds (70%). The two largest sources of beer money in Congress are the political action committee of the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and mega-brewer Anheuser-Busch (AB). Those two sources together account for more than two-thirds of all beer money flowing to Congressional campaign coffers and about half of all alcohol-industry money. During the 2005-2006 election cycle, 309 members of Congress (57%) accepted a total of $2,472,250 in NBWA contributions averaging $8,000 (ranging from $100 to $20,000). More than one-fourth (27 total) of all senators accepted NBWA contributions during that cycle. In the same period, 255 members of Congress and 37 senators accepted a total of $1,014,624 in contributions from Anheuser-Busch, in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $41,750. The beer industry is lobbying Congress to support its “beer tax rollback” bill (H.R. 1610), which would cut the federal beer tax in half to its 1951 level – a move many public health groups strongly oppose. In the previous (109th) Congress, 208 (out of 539) members of Congress and 13 (out of 100) senators co-sponsored this legislation (then H.R. 1306 and S. 722). To the right is a list of members who are co-sponsoring the “beer tax rollback bill” in the 110th Congress (updated as they sign on), along with a tally of the contributions each has received in the 2005-2006 election cycle from the two biggest beer-industry donors, the NBWA and AB. Please weigh in with your Representative and help ensure they know the full story on alcohol excise taxes.

Now, fortunately said nanny state neo-prohibitionist asshats have set up a handy dandy website so you can exercise your constitutional rights to send a preconfigured email to the office of your representative so it can be logged and deleted by a 19 year old college intern. Or, you can use their dime and send the form with a pro-beer message. Do your duty!