Alabama Democrats trying to scam voters again

The legislature in Alabama have a devious plan to raise taxes. The House just passed a Bill to remove the 4% tax on groceries but in return they want to remove the exemption on your State tax for Federal taxes paid so basically you will be taxed on income you were already taxed on and never received. Scumbags. Democrats are sneaky bastards. Why can’t they just cut a tax and leave it that way? Birmingham’s sales tax is the most ridiculous in the nation and I’m about to lead a tea party revolution.

From S.F. Johnson via the Montgomery Adviser:

Only about 60 percent of the total would be exempt with the remainder of the groceries — pet food, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies and other non-food items — subject to full taxation. In the meantime, income taxes paid to the federal government would no longer be allowed as a deduction on the state income tax form.

State filers would be taxed on income they never received (federal taxes withheld and paid), effectively raising the state tax rate on individuals

H/T DoctorIQ

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Yeah, S.F. Johnson from Pike Road wrote that letter. Here’s a copy of a letter I sent to newspapers:
Representative John Knight’s constitutional amendment bill to exempt groceries from the state sales tax is a sham. It would do just that and nothing more except to raise taxes on many Alabamians to the extent that they may be less well off in the end. While it goes too far in one respect, it fails to go far enough in another.
Many self sufficient Alabamians, not even to mention commercial farmers, grow much of their own food in gardens. Knight’s bill doesn’t remove the sales tax on items required to grow food for even just an average vegetable gardener — such as seed and plants, fertilizer, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, gardening tools and machinery, fuel and lubricants for the machinery, and other miscellaneous items.
His bill rewards people who might well grow some of their own food who are instead using food stamps (paid for by taxpayers) at the expense of those who grow much of their food.
What’s fair, or responsible, about that?

1. Don on April 24th, 2008 at 7:17 am
I forgot to credit you in my post. I learned about the issue from your email.

2. Scott Allan on April 24th, 2008 at 8:57 am