Believes tax bill will hurt businesses
After reading the article concerning the elimination of the state income tax, I question the use of an increase in the general sales tax. Not only does this put an additional burden on many businesses that will very likely lose revenue due to lost sales, it can effectively be an increased tax burden on many Mississippians on fixed incomes. In my case the majority of my income is currently derived from Social Security and my State retirement, both of which are not taxed by the State of Mississippi. By increasing the sales tax it would be the same as taxing my income that is currently exempt from state income tax. I don’t think the decrease in the grocery tax would really be much of an offset to the increase in the general sales tax. The legislature needs to scrap this idea and go back to the drawing board.
Benny Cooper
Columbus
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