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Bill to reduce TN sales tax on food fails

A proposal to make lowering the Tennessee state sales tax on groceries contingent on whether there's a surplus in revenue has failed.  The measure failed to get a majority vote in the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday. The companion bill is awaiting a vote in a House subcommittee.  Under the legislation, half of the surplus would go toward student assistance awards.  Governor Bill Haslam plans to trim the sales tax on groceries by .25%, down to 5.25%, in the budget year beginning July 1, which is projected to cost $21 million.  Haslam has said he wants to drop the sales tax on groceries to 5% in the next budget year.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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