Land of Drinkin'
- Weeks after Chicago claimed the crown for most breweries in the nation, the news gets even better: Illinois is home to some of the cheapest beer prices in the U.S.
According to a study by the website Simple Thrifty Living, the average price of a 24-pack of Bud Light or Miller Lite in Illinois is $15.20 — 12 cents cheaper than those 24-packs would cost in the next-cheapest state (South Carolina; $15.32) and less than half the price of the most expensive state (Alaska; $31.21).
Though it is just one study and quite limited in nature, the results underscore a point long understood within the local beer industry: Chicago, and by extension Illinois, are home to unusually cheap beer prices.
Politicians know if they keep beer prices cheap, people will drink to forget what a shithole they live in. Raising sin-taxes on beer might be a suicidal move.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
37 Comments:
Well you just jinxed it. I see a beer can tax in our future
The only thing that’s cheap!
Heard they made a small class of lieutenants today starting training Tuesday. Can anybody grab and post the list?
Bread and circus.
We moved to Florida 4 years ago. Nice to have a soft landing after being on a sinking ship. Beer however costs about 24 bucks a case here. I switched to imported beer in a green bottle from Holland for only a buck more a case. Oh well. You can't have everything.
Watch what you say. The city just might put a "road tax" on beer.
It was a lot cheaper when I could find me a case of Meister Brau, Drewrey's or Falstaff. It's still worth every penny.
Wish you have not published this, can see a new beer tax being contemplated in Springfield, that alone could fix Illinois debt problems.
How about Old Style and PBR?
screw drinking beer. it bloats you up and makes raunchy farts.
i drink polski moonshine and you can too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-nGbAf81Zs
You thought taxes on sugary drinks almost started a revolt? Try that shit with beer. Something, something, can't put my finger on it, about Al Capone and beer.... and Chicago...
Keep drinkin' boys. The Pols and the Developers, always
crusaders for urban renewal, will demolish acres of traditional
construction and install "Texas Donuts," essentially a 4 to 5
storey parking garage surrounded by apartments or "condos,"
whatever title toots your whistle and brings the most revenue.
These are high-density fire traps disguised by a pedestrian
walking area fronted by retail shops. The illusion of openness
enables these expensive modern day slums to pop up
unnoticed before your very eyes. Brick and concrete are
expensive and require skilled construction. Mistakes don't
matter so much with "Donuts": they can be corrected with a
quick trip to Home Depot for building materials.
Firewalls? You're lucky if you get gypsum coated particle board.
Incidentally, this type of stick-built and balloon type of construction
started in high density cities like Chicago, then spread out.
Just like that big fire they had in Chicago which Millennials insist
"that was then, but this is now."
I can see a beer tax in our future.
Hey SCC, you owe the chaplains fund a dollar. The Onion’s Jim Anchower said Land Of Drinkin’ long ago. Haha.
SCC you must have been drunk when you penned this article! These POS politicians in this state will hesitate to raise a tax??!!! I don't think there is "anything" left that is not taxed! As a matter of fact there is tax on tax in shitcago,crook county, illannoy!!! These voters are so drinking the Kool-Aid they think they are in heaven when they are actually getting their ass handed to them every time there is an election...And it gets worse, with the fact that the candidates being elected won't enforce laws that keep the public safe, won't incarcerate criminals to keep the public safe and the latest, the new AG has decided to pursuit a prison sentence, perceived as lenient on JVD meanwhile people have been released with no charges and baby slice and dicers are set to go free!
SOLUTION IS GET THEM TO STOP DRINKING KOOL-AID!
Life is to short to drink bad beer, AKA Miller/Bud Light.
Cheap beer, legal weed, keep gasoline prices down, give certain people free money, and make guns illegal. This is the formula for a socialist utopia. Once the people are addicted to free stuff and begin to believe in the government’s goodness then the good party members can take what they want. But, none dare call them Democratics.
You are on target about Florida beer prices.
It has been that way since at least 1990 when I first visited the Sunshine State.
A small price to pay considering lower sales tax and no sales tax on food and drugs.
Cheap beer! Apparently the super greedy owners of the Cubs, Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, and Bears have not been informed of the cheap beer prices in Chicago! They charges an average of about TEN DOLLARS! for a single beer. Fuck em all! I pass on the beer at games.
What is odd is liquor taxes are high in IL.
Im recently retired so I rarely drink anymore I just smoke weed
A few years ago Wisconsin tried to raise beer taxes.
A near state wide riot.
Hmm???... First in Low Beer Prices, First in Most Corrupt State, and almost always First in Homicides. I think there just might be a link there??
Keep the peasants drunk so they don't realize how much money is being stolen from them in all the other areas due to the overt corruption and taxation.
And keep them so hammered thanks to cheap beer prices that they don't hear the bullets whizzing past their heads when drinking the swill called American beer while they're in the park.
Florida here I come!
Where do we stand on the prices of dope?
Except that neither Bud Light nor Miller Lite are beers. They are piss, plain and simple.
There is no Alcohol tax in Lake County north of O'hare.
Bud Lite or Miller Lite is beer? Carbonation is the only difference between what goes in and comes out. You're getting ripped off paying $15 for a case of that stuff.
And Chicago has the highest sales of Steel Reserve 211 in the country!!
Just don’t buy a beer at a sporting event..
Schlemiel, Schlimazel.
Cheap beer and what high taxes, corner stores selling single cans Link accepted, untold money goes back to the motherland.
Taxing the gasoline picks up the loss.
I remember a quart of ice cold Blatz going for 50 cent and they’d sell it to you if you had a note from home.
South Carolina...cheap beer, low taxes and far left politicians are rare except in a few gerrymandered districts (James Clyburn, anyone?). Best to stay near the coasts, midlands or upstate....some of the parts in the middle are poor & desolate. Cheers!
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Where do we stand on the prices of dope?
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Rahm going after Amazon. Maybe the cheap beer will get them here? Try riding the CTA el now without the added population. Average of 15 delays per line right now. No wonder we drink.
How dare you call bud light bad swill. Want a good laugh, take a ride by revolution brewery on kedzie. A line of goons halfway down the block wearing jeans and brown carhart coats with beer nerd beards and holding jugs to get filled up with some horrible tasting shit. Old granny crotch pale ale.
Spotted Cow!!
https://newglarusbrewing.com/
My favorite beer?
What's ever on sale at Jewels.
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