California’s looming budget crisis has produced no shortage of proposed solutions.

One of the latest, and supposedly greatest, ideas to fix our monetary issues comes from California Assemblyman Jim Beall, D-San Jose, who wants to add a $2 tax to every six-pack of beer sold.

According to Beall, this tax would generate up to $2 billion a year for crime prevention and programs to prevent underage drinking.

This idea has stirred SF State’s own Leigh Wolf of the College Republicans to denounce the tax because it would unfairly target college students.

Wolf has a point.

Taxing six-packs of beer is going to hurt the already stretched-thin college student. Beer is a cheap product that we can blow the last of our money on after we pay for tuition, books, rent, food, transportation...the list goes on.

College students pay for so much as it is. What about raising the tax on all liquor sold in this state?

That way everyone will be hit with this tax, not just the beer drinkers out there.

Or why not raise California’s sales tax?

Nice try, Mr. Beall—but leave our beer alone.