%0 PDF %T Testimony: Hearing on Excise Taxes %A PAUL JOHNSON %8 2007-03-07 %I Tufts Archival Research Center %R http://localhost/files/mw22vh57f %X Marginalia; Center for Science in the Public Interest testimony on excise taxes on alcohol in front of the Senate Finance Committee. Calls for the doubling of current excise tax rates on alcohol and the equalization of tax rates on alcohol. Cites the negative effects of alcohol and the budget defecit as reasons to raise excise taxes. Challenges argument that tax is unfair towards low-income people by labeling alcohol as a luxury. Includes cover memo from Fred Panzer to Paul Johnson suggesting similar tactics will be used towards cigarette excise taxes. %[ 2018-10-06 %9 text %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution