10 Tipple tax.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

Those concerned by the social costs of excessive drinking--88,000 deaths a year being one of them--will find Maryland's recent experience encouraging. In the 18 months after the state's sales tax on alcohol went from 6 to 9 percent in 2011, alcohol sales fell by 4 percent, according to a recent report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Liquor sales were down by 5.1 percent, beer sales...