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CULTIVATING ALCOHOL CULTURE

REASON 1

NO NEW TAXES

ost people don’t know that booze is subject to both federal and state excise taxes. Colorado’s tariffs went into effect in 1935—and haven’t changed since. The state’s taxes were low to begin with, but the erosion of them due to

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