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Apr 26, 2008 6:30 pm US/Pacific

College Republicans Protesting Proposed Beer Tax

SAN JOSE (AP) ― About four dozen Republican college students are raising their voices in protest over an issue near and dear to them: a new proposed tax on beer.

Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose, has proposed a tax on beer makers that would add almost $2 to the price of a six pack to help eliminate the state's budget deficit.

But 21-year-old Leigh Wolf, a member of the San Francisco State University Republicans, says the tax unfairly burdens poor college students, who often drink beer to relax at the end of a long day of school and work.

Others students protested outside of Beall's office waving signs that read "No taxation on intoxication!"

Beall said the tax would generate up to $2 billion a year for crime prevention and programs to prevent underage drinking.

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