“As Americans see their cost-of-living skyrocket amid historic inflation, suspending the grocery tax is the most effective way to provide direct relief to every Tennessean,” Governor Bill Lee said upon signing the budget bill. “Our state has the ability to put dollars back in the pockets of hardworking Tennesseans, and I thank members of the General Assembly for their continued partnership in maintaining our fiscally conservative approach.”
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Four percent. That's just a fraction of how much prices have risen since Biden took office.
Wow, 17 whole cents a gallon! I guess it's better then nothing.....
ReplyDeleteFuck Joe Biden!
Political stunts like this, and suspending the fuel tax temporarily, don't even come close to making up how much more food and fuel cost now compared to even a year ago, much less two years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe "gotcha" is you can't suspend tax on something that isn't there! Follow me for more Bidenisms! #FJB
ReplyDeleteThe other day I saw a 'Fourth of July special!'. Buy a new car and they'll throw in a $50 gas coupon.
ReplyDeleteThere should be no sales tax at all on food items. That's about as regressive as you can get.
ReplyDeleteI'm really surprised TN has a food tax. I thought they were more sensible about taxation than their next door neighbors NC. Those tarheels tax everything, and vehicles twice!
ReplyDeleteThey tax the dogshit out of us. There's no State income tax so they make it up in other ways. Some cities/counties even have a beer tax. I'm not kidding.
DeleteNever trust government when it comes to taxes. Here in Michigan, when they were trying to get the lottery, they promised that all of the money raised would go to education. And it did. What they failed to mention is that the money that went to education was deducted from the budget that was given to education from the general fund.
ReplyDeleteThe government wanted to raise our gasoline tax, so they put it on the ballot, which failed big time, despite a huge publicity campaign which cost many millions of dollars. So what did they do? They came up with some obscure rule, and raised the gas tax by an amount that was around half of what they were asking for in the first place.
Our governor, the Empress of Lansing ran on a platform of "Fix the Damn Roads!" Apparently it worked, because they elected her. Then lucky her, the pandemic hit. She didn't nothing with the roads, her focus was on fuckus with the pandemic. Now, she is running television ads telling just how many of the roads she has fixed! Totally unbelievable, how much guts that bitch has. I hope that who ever runs for president in 2024 takes her as a running mate. Let them both go down in flames.