Always On: Food Tax Cut Might Have Merit

Posted by Mary Mancini on February 21, 2007 under Uncategorized |

The Always On series illustrates what we’d be talking about on any given day if we were on the air 5 days a week.

If we were on the air today we’d be talking about how sometimes we like the way the Nashville City Paper thinks. In today’s editorial, they called for Governor Bredesen to stop his offensive on a Republican-led effort to lower the state’s sales tax on food and possibly eliminate it completely over the next decade.

Although we’re tickled pink that our Governor has decided to make education a priority during his remaining time in office, we’re disappointed in the heavy-handedness in which he is treating the Republican suggestion that we cut tax on food. He also seems too quick to discount the proposal and too willing to accept the cigarette tax’s regressiveness as a necessary evil. The City Paper is right, the Governor should give the idea of a tax cut on food some serious thought. Somewhere in the two proposals there is room for discussion and undoubtedly room to compromise.