What the Tax Foundation map doesn’t go into is the fact (shocking, I know) that with alcohol as with cigarettes and just about every other portable thing you can imagine, high taxes encourage smuggling from places where taxes are lower to places where they’re higher.
Via How Highly Taxed is Your Beer? @ Hit & Run : Reason.com.
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