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- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/393/
- Published: 2005-02-27T03:57:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-18T10:12:08.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Better than the Boston Tea Party

We've been blessed with plenty of drinking items lately. Now there's this story about the Japanese's efforts to get around their government's **onerous beer tax**. According to the article: "By using less malt and more of other ingredients, the rebels got around Japan's legal definition of 'beer' ”“ a malt content of 66.7% or higher ”“ they lowered the malt content, and they created Happoshu. Happoshu sells for about 1/2 the price of regular beer with the same alcohol content." Happoshu tastes like a watery beer, but it's not bad and was good enough to capture 40% of the beer market in Japan last year. The government is striking back, however, and seeking to impose beer-tax-like taxes on Happoshu.

They say sin taxes don't work. We don't know if that's true, but it's surely true when the sin taxed isn't a sin.

[For the full story](http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers129.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)