Originally Posted by MelodyMiata (Post 1007807)

And suddenly...
Politics.

Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1007810)

you'll know when politics are debated, this is talking about celebrities.

Originally Posted by EO2K (Post 1007812)

No kidding, we have an entire subforum for that drivel.

As recently as 35 years ago, there were fewer than 50 breweries in the whole country… The story of the U.S. ascent to the top tier of world beer began in the late 1970s, when brewing was liberated from government taxation and regulation that had held it back since Prohibition. …The brewing industry had been trying unsuccessfully for years to get Washington to lower excise taxes on beer produced by smaller brewers. …H.R. 3605 cut the federal excise tax on beer to $7 from $9 per barrel on the first 60,000 barrels produced, so long as a brewery produced no more than two million barrels annually. …The tax cut unleashed a revolution in American brewing. Hundreds of smaller breweries began to open across the country selling what came to be called craft beer.

Some of the stars of American craft beer, such as Ken Grossman of Sierra Nevada and Sam Calagione at Dogfish Head, got their start with home brewing—an activity that until the late 1970s was illegal in the U.S. …the government did little to enforce the anti-home-brewing law. Still, the air of illegality discouraged many who might have taken up home-brewing… Enthusiasts in the U.S. kept their interests underground, usually sharing information only with a small circle of other home brewers. Who knew when the government might start enforcing the home-brewing prohibition? Gradually, though, the secretive home brewers grew bolder. …They lobbied…to introduce legislation legalizing home-brewing at the federal level. …legislation…was reconciled with a House bill in August 1978. President Carter signed the law that October, and it took effect the following February. Home-brewing of up to 200 gallons a year per household was suddenly permitted.

The result: Home-brewing took off, helping to spur the movement toward craft beer that had been touched off by the beer tax reduction. The beer industry swelled in the 1980s and 1990s, producing thousands of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue. The rise of American beer wasn’t an accident. It was spurred by efforts to cut taxes and regulation that unleashed entrepreneurship. Too bad Washington doesn’t raise a toast to that idea more often.

Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 1007948)

Brain really hated my pics, too. But my paint was so bad I had to overdo it.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1367529517

Were you at Miatapalooza?

Originally Posted by EO2K (Post 1007947)

This thread is no longer about OP, I thought that would be abundantly clear by now :giggle:

Originally Posted by MelodyMiata (Post 1007968)

Obviously. ;)

Originally Posted by MelodyMiata (Post 1007968)

Obviously. ;)

Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin (Post 1007976)

Who the hell are you? Are you here just to sell stuff? Why am I here... I thought this was the beer and cat thread...

Originally Posted by concealer404 (Post 1007384)

No i'm not being facetious. We're just getting to know you, and i noticed that you graduated high school in 2012.



Anyways, you have cat pictures. You passed the test!!! You will be accepted. Just post at least one cat picture in the cat picture thread a week and we'll have no problems.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1367429331

Originally Posted by MelodyMiata (Post 1007977)

I forgot..

Originally Posted by rccote (Post 1008042)

Holiday, huh? Is US19 still littered with strip clubs clear up into NPR?