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Show Tax Increase On Consumer Products Proposed All of us already pay heavy excise taxes on such products as gasoline, airline tickets, tires, cigarettes, beverage alcohol, al-cohol, fishing and hunting equipment and on telephone service. If Oregon Senator Bob Packwood has his way in Washington, the cost of many everyday products and services serv-ices will skyrocket. Senator Packwood's tax reform re-form package includes a proposal pro-posal to no longer allow businesses a deduction for federal excise taxes imposed on their products. It is the consumer, however, who will be especially hurt by this proposal. Prices will go up, many jobs will be lost and businesses, large and small, will be forced to close their doors. Senator Packwood's proposal pro-posal is so anti-consumer that Citizens for Tax Justice, a na-. na-. . tional consumer and labor organization, or-ganization, recently called it "nothing but a huge consumption consump-tion tax that will fall heavily on middle and low income families." Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, says his organization is also deeply concerned with the effect ef-fect that nondeductibility of excise taxes will have on workers. The Senator's proposal would be particularly devastating devas-tating for the liquor business. Just a few months ago, the government raised the excise tax on liquor 19. The effect of the Packwood proposal would be the same as raising the excise tax another 54 or about $2.00 per liter bottle of 80 proof liquor. Similarly, consumer prices for other products would increase. While the Reagan Administration Adminis-tration has long stood for decreasing de-creasing taxes, Senator Pack-wood's Pack-wood's excise plan amounts to nothing more than a "tax on a tax." It is regressive, anti-consumer anti-consumer and should be opposed. op-posed. Your voice can make a difference. dif-ference. If you oppose this tax increase and the higher prices it will bring, write to Senator Packwood and your Senators in Washington at: U.S. Senate, Se-nate, Washington, DC 20510. |