OPINION: Give American beer a fair fight
Rep. Jordan Redman
I represent Kootenai County in the Idaho House of Representatives. I’m a businessman, and I believe in free markets. But a free market only works when everybody plays by the same rules. Right now, American brewers aren’t getting that, and neither are the Idaho farmers and truck drivers who depend on them. A targeted tariff on beer imported from Mexico would give our breweries, our grain farmers, and our workers a fair fight. That’s all anyone should be asking for.
American brewing goes back to the founding of the country. Our breweries make a good product and they pay good wages. Brewery workers in this country earn close to $80,000 a year. That’s real, family-sustaining pay, the kind of job that builds a middle class. American breweries also follow some of the strictest safety and quality rules anywhere.
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