The beer industry is again seeking to rob the Treasury and enrich itself at the expense of public health and safety by pushing a self-serving bill (H.R. 836) that would slash the federal excise tax on beer by 50%, to its 1951 level. 

Please urge your legislator to oppose this unwise bill. Ask him or her instead to consider a well-justified increase in alcohol taxes to provide needed funds for health care reform and other domestic spending priorities.

Beer-industry representatives will be in Washington, D.C. in late March and early April, 2009 hoping to cash in on more than $5 million in campaign contributions during the 2008 election cycle and add co-sponsors to the beer-tax rollback bill. 

Please urge your legislator to OPPOSE H.R.826!