Residents debate "barrel tax" in Jack Daniel's hometown

(Reuters) - A lot more is smoldering in Lynchburg, Tennessee than this weekend's Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue.

Home to makers of the Tennessee sipping whiskey, Lynchburg is embroiled in a debate over whether they should be subject to a barrel tax to pay for what proponents are calling necessary infrastructure improvements.

Opponents of the proposal say the company does plenty already for the city and for Moore County.

"I'm opposed to it because I don't think that any government or any government entity should go after any corporation for a special tax just because they are very successful," said Kenneth Fly, owner of the Bar-B-Que Caboose.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/23/us-tennessee-jack-idUSTRE79M3FU20111023

they never seem to learn....

Initiative was from a guy who was pissed off at all the tourism and people coming through his town and thought JD should pay for it.

Festivals and regular tourists etc.. etc..

He seemed like a smug jackass.