Reps. Richard Neal , D-Mass., and Kevin Brady, R-Texas, are proposing a bipartisan bill that craft brewers have dubbed the “beer stimulus.” It would reduce excise taxes for breweries producing less than 6 million barrels a year, in the hope that small-town brewers could fatten their balance sheets and hire more workers.
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