With all the drunks in SA you can cover the education deficit.

Leave the liberals in the think tank, fill it up with cheap beer and drown them like RATS!!!

They need to haul everybody who makes, drinks, sells, or delivers been and whiskey off to jail in chains and fine them thousands of dollars to get out of the jail house. They can use that money. Drinking beer and whiskey is a sin and an abomination against God and Jesus, and it should be completely illegal. Only the devil's people have anything to do with it, so even when those people do pay their fines, they shouldn't be turned completely loose. They could be allowed to get some fresh air while working on the side of the highway on chain gangs. As far as any tax is concerned, that does not work. The sinful lottery is proof of that. The money does not go to schoolhouses like they claimed it would. It goes to the liberals who give it all to illegal aliens, homosexuals, dope fiends, and to the people who want to take guns away from Americans.

Leave it to a liberal think tank to sit around and pull ideas from their keisters. Sounds like someone is trying to run for office in the future and needs a few feathers in their hat before going public.

does the tax affect pony kegs? i buy alot of newcastle pony kegs.

how about an illegal alien tax for all these nightmare kids in the public schools. Tax anyone who cannot provide proof of citizenship.

If yall want more tax money to work with for the kiddies lets try looking within the education system for it. Seems to me that a lot of money is paid out to the administrations of these different school districts.also seems like I remember hearing something a while back about how much some of the district superintendents make and I was like HOLY CR#P! like all most a million a year for some of these people. Thats a bit excessive. and I don't understand why these contracts are so high. and as far as the lottery goes I believe that a lot of Texans just don't play anymore . I don't and a lot of people I know don't play. Im guessing that the wonderful economy has a lot to do with that.Now will that get us all the money we need probably not ..But DONT tax my beer.Its high enough all ready.

There is already plenty of money being allocated for education. The schools need to make better use of what they currently get. Since the 1960s spending on education has gone through the roof and yet there is no sign of an equivalent increase in the education levels of the students graduating today. In fact a case could easily be made that the opposite has occurred. Enough is enough.

Perhaps if all the monies designated for education were actually being used for education, and more was needed, there might be some justification for looking for further funds.. However, if all the lottery money went for education, AND the incompetent SBOE stayed out of education, the state could have a decent public education system, without having to tax beer. A tax on draught beer targets the small microbreweries, and would be detrimental to economic growth in Texas.

Past taxes on cigarettes...yes. Leave social drinking affordable. How about a tax on a lawmaker who continues to vote along party lines and deadlocks the country, instead of representing his constituents to get things done? Tax their pay at a higher rate and stop any reimbursements for travel to acquire revenue for education.