Addiction Treatment Advocates in Maine need to look at their legislaters campaine funding and publish how much each politition is recieving from the alcohol industry. Get tough.

It's about time someone started taxing alcohol. There is no way that you would ever convince me that it does not ruin lives and whole generations of lives, puts innocent people in danger on the roads, domestic abuse aggravated by alcohol. This state has subsidized itself on the back of smokers and it is about time that alcohol gets its fair share of tax. If the state raised the taxes like they did on cigarettes we would have no deficit. Alcohol kills, mames, destroys lives sometimes for generations. It is time for people to stand up and say enough -- fair is fair -- one sin shouldn't be considered less a sin than another. Statistics can be made to look however you want them too -- let's start seeing some of the alcohol ones.