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States Putting Hopes in ‘Bottoms Up’ to Help the Bottom Line

Appeared on September 29, 2011

Mark Stehr, PhD, associate professor of economics, was quoted in a New York Times article about the easement of alcohol sales laws to raise additional revenue. “These are kind of antitax times, so it’s tough to raise any kind of tax, but this is one they might have more success with,” said Mark Stehr, an associate professor of economics at Drexel University in Philadelphia who has studied the effects of taxes and other regulations on cigarettes and alcohol.