The two groups Americans of all stripes condemn are members of Congress and hipsters. And the latest evidence that hipsters are bound to plummet further into the reputation depths is this: the rising price of beer.
A cheap glass of beer is fast becoming an endangered species in New York City - and you can blame Pabst Blue Ribbon-swilling hipsters for that.
They are the reason why "sub-premium" beer prices in the city have climbed 9.4% in the last seven months, say Restaurant Sciences, which tracks food and beverage sales nationwide.
"I believe the single biggest driver in sub-premium beer price increases is indeed specifically PBR," said Chuck Ellis, who heads the research company. "It has become quite fashionable."
Because of hipsters' unquenchable thirst for beer that tastes like chalk, watering holes are raising the prices of mainstream, sub-premium beer. A $4.50 Bud Light becomes $4.75, then $5.00. America crumbles.
Sub-premium beer has had prices on a steady uptick since October. I can only assume ultra/super-premium drinkers aren't deterred by $5.25 beer. Salute.
Hipsters are interfering with millions of middle-class Americans. All that natural gas driller in North Dakota wants to do when he clocks out after a 10 hour day is order a cheap cold one before he goes home and faces reality. That hard-working American’s day gets ruined when his sub-premium beer is more expensive because of hipsters. If a coal miner in Scranton gets priced out of his Keystone Light Night, then the hipsters, and the terrorists, and indeed the hipster terrorists, have won.
A recent PPP poll showed 27 percent of Americans supporting the taxation of hipsters just for being hipsters. I may oppose senseless taxes, but a hipster tax would be good for America.