THE NY TIMES

favorably reviewed a book over the holidays by longtime anti-gun crusader Philip Cook, published last summer. The book calls for raising beer and wine taxes to the level of liquor taxes and then indexing them all to inflation to help pay for the societal costs of alcohol.

According to the article, Cook “has come up with a blunt way of describing the problem. ‘Do you think we should be subsidizing alcohol?’ he asks. ‘Because that's what we're doing.’”

“A reasonable tax would still allow people to make their own choices about drinking. They would simply be asked to pay the true cost of the product they were buying,” the article continues.

To read the review, click here.