Sunday. Beer. Football. Tax Hike. Which one of these doesn’t belong?

This weekend you can enjoy three and fight the fourth at Butch McGuire’s in Chicago, one of Illinois’s best bars.

Chicagoans already pay the highest spirits tax in the nation. In fact, taxes on spirits have been increased four times since 2005. Now Cook County…wants to pile on yet another job-killing tax hike on distilled spirits and tobacco.

Industry analysts predict that these liquor taxes could cost upward of 270 jobs in Cook County, as higher costs squeeze the hospitality industry.

After hundreds of billions of dollars in increased federal taxes out of Washington and a 67 percent state income tax hike out of Springfield, the last thing Chicagoans need is another job-killing tax hike out of Cook County.

WHAT: Opponents of the liquor tax hike will gather at Butch McGuire’s Sunday afternoon to find out why the proposed tax hikes on spirits and tobacco would kill jobs and hurt the economy in Cook County, and what they can do to stop this tax.

WHEN: Press briefing: 2:15 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13

WHERE: World Famous Butch McGuire’s Pub, 20 W. Division St., Chicago

WHO: Speakers will include…. Bobby McGuire, owner of Butch McGuire’s; Patrick Gleason, Americans for Tax Reform; John O’Hara, Illinois Policy Institute