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Is It Time to Raise Michigan's Tax on Beer? LANSING, MI (MPRN) - Human services advocates say Michigan needs to raise its beer tax help pay for services threatened by the budget deficit. The current tax is about two cents per bottle.

Sharon Parks is with the Michigan League for Human Services. She has been trying for several years to get the Legislature to raise the beer tax.

"It was last adjusted in 1966, and then it was adjusted downward. So we're not making much progress here," says Parks.

Parks appeared on public television's 'Off The Record' with host Tim Skubick.

Advocates say raising the price per bottle by a few pennies would bring in about $100 million a year to the state. But beer industry lobbyists say Michigan already has one of the highest beer tax in the Midwest. © Copyright 2012, MPRN