Coming to a supermarket near you… signature collectors

Please don’t sign. The California Secretary of State has cleared for circulation a proposal by Josephine and Kent Whitney to collect signatures to include a Measure on California’s November ballot which raises the excise tax on alcohol . If the Whitneys are able to collect 433,971 signatures, our often misinformed electorate will vote whether or not to impose “an additional excise tax on alcoholic beverages, increasing the excise tax on each six-pack of beer from 11¢ to $6.08, on each 750 ml bottle of wine from 4¢ to $5.11, and on each 750 ml bottle of distilled spirits from 65¢ to $17.57.” Hey, I know the state needs money, but this proposal seems nuts.