Impose local beer tax
I think Bill Jackson needs to be replaced as president of the Fayette County Fair for wanting to sell beer there. Did you lose your mind, or do you even have one? We don’t need anymore DUI drivers out there. People that drink beer smell like someone’s garbage that was out in the sun for two weeks. I think everybody should boycott the fair if you have beer there. Come on churches, let’s get with it. What we do need is a 7 percent sales tax on every glass of beer sold and a 10 percent sales tax on each case of beer that is sold. It works in Pittsburgh, it will work here.
Then you would have money to fix up the fairground and others places, too. This is why downtown Uniontown and the Uniontown Mall smells so bad when they put on their festival. Clean up your city, Mr. Ed Fike. Stop the beer sales on our streets. If there is no beer to sell, then the air will stay clean.
Bill Hixon
Hopwood