BCT Editorial – 2/25/09

This page was last updated on February 25, 2009.

Sinful; Editorial; Beaver County Times; February 25, 2009.

The editorial makes it seem like “sin taxes” are something new.  Without getting into a detailed history of sin taxes, in Pennsylvania they go back at least to 1936 and the “temporary” Johnstown Flood Tax on liquor.  That tax started out in 1936 at 10% and is now 18%, an 80% increase.

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