Customers pay $2.50 for a gallon of whiskey but come this spring you could be paying three more dollars in taxes on the same gallon.

There’s been talk of a possible increase on sin taxes – meaning alcohol and tobacco products.

Governor John Bel Edwards is proposing nine new sales taxes to help fill the gap in the state budget.

“There’s got to be somewhere else he can take up the slack,”” said Jonathan Hamilton.

Edwards wants to tax hard liquor an extra three dollars per gallon.

And bump the cigarette tax up 22 cents to a dollar eight per pack.

And residents are not happy about the news.

“I think they need to stop. The oil field is down and there’s not much going on with work, so men got to scrounge for what little money they got,”” said Brad Bourgeois.

Ahyirs Navarre works at the Shop Rite on Bertrand and West Congress.

She says the tax increase will hurt business.

“If they don’t come in for cigarettes they won’t come in for other little things as well, so that will affect the store greatly,”” said Ahyris Navarre.

Navarre and her co-workers say the fifty cent per pack increase on cigarettes last year was enough.

“No more taxes,”” said the workers of Shop Rite.

Navarre says she hopes the tax does not pass.

“It’s just impossible for people to spend money they don’t have,”” said Navarre.

If approved, the tax will go into effect as soon as April first.