http://www.scottallan.com/2008/04/alabama-democrats-trying-to-scam-voters-again.html Slapping my bumper stickers on the Internet Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.scottallan.com/2008/04/alabama-democrats-trying-to-scam-voters-again.html#comment-1361 Scott Allan Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:57:46 +0000 http://www.scottallan.com/?p=678#comment-1361 <p>I forgot to credit you in my post.  I learned about the issue from your email.</p> I forgot to credit you in my post.  I learned about the issue from your email.

]]> http://www.scottallan.com/2008/04/alabama-democrats-trying-to-scam-voters-again.html#comment-1360 Don Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:17:48 +0000 http://www.scottallan.com/?p=678#comment-1360 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? 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?

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