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Aug 7, 2008 11:30 pm US/Eastern
Group Wants To Keep Allegheny County's Drink Tax
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
For months, bar and restaurant owners in Allegheny County have been fighting against the 10 percent drink tax, but another group says they'll fight any effort to lower it.
The tax was implemented to help fund the Port Authority. Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato has said that the choice was between the drink tax or higher property taxes.
There could be two dueling drink tax questions on the ballot in November and Citizens Against Raising Taxes On Property, or CARTOP, is concerned people will still be confused in November.
Tavern owners and others turned in signatures to have a referendum asking voters if they want to lower the drink tax from 10 percent to one half of one percent.
County Council's question would ask voters to choose between the drink tax and higher property taxes.
But the group that wants to lower the drink tax believes the premise is wrong and there's another solution - a more efficient government.
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