UFCW

Also known as United Food and Commercial Workers
==Media==
===LTE in the P-G ===
====The 18 percent tax on wine and spirits is invaluable to our state's coffers====
Your editorial "Bitter Drink: State Wine Shipments May Be Taxed to the Max" (June 11, 2006) properly points to steps taken by the state and members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Locals 23 and 1776 to make the state's wine and spirits stores efficient and consumer-friendly.
Modernized stores, Sunday hours, competitive prices and stores in supermarkets are just a few of the reasons why Pennsylvania's wine and spirits shops have experienced record-high sales growth in each of the past four years -- generating more than $375 million a year in taxes and profits for the state treasury and municipal budgets. That's money for roads, schools, health care, state police and all of the other services we use every day.
The Post-Gazette leaves readers wondering, however, as to why customers who make their purchases by telephone or the Internet should evade the tax established by the state Legislature. What's fair about that? Why should some customers pay the wine and spirit tax, and not others?
Government services aren't free. If the Post-Gazette believes that the more than $209 million a year generated by the 18 percent tax or any part of it should be abolished, we suggest that it owes its readers, if not the Legislature, an explanation of how the dollars raised by that tax should be replaced.
RONALD C. LENHART, President, UFCW Local 23, Canonsburg
WENDELL W. YOUNG IV, President, UFCW Local 1776, Plymouth Meeting, Pa
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