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By The Associated Press

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Published: Thu, May 08, 2008 - 12:01 pm

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Senate has refused for the
second time to begin debate on a bill to remove the state sales tax
on groceries.
Democratic state Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma tried to get the
bill up for debate Thursday. But he fell one vote short of the
three-fifths majority needed to begin debate. Sanders made a
similar effort April 30 and fell three votes short. Sanders said he
plans to try again before the legislative session ends.
The bill is a proposed constitutional amendment. It would remove
the state's 4 percent sales tax on groceries and it would raise the
threshold where a family starts paying the state income tax from
$12,600 to $20,000. The bill would replace the lost revenue by
eliminating the state income tax deduction for federal taxes paid.

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Thanks Democrats in congress for increasing the Minimum wage by $2.10 an hour. Another example of extemely poor decision making by a bunch of ignorant Democrats and the uneducated voters that voted them in office.

Any consumer that has a lick of economic awareness should know that by increasing the min wage by $2.10 you have decreased the buying power of a dollar. So if you earn $15.00 an hour, in time you will be back to $12.90 an hour. Are the Democrats going to make it manditory to increase every working American’s hourly wages $2.10? Why no. Is your employer going to automactically increase your hourly $2.10. Aint going to happen. Why do you think the Minimum Wage has been the same for so many years? DUMB DUMB DUMB.

Just in time for $4.00 a gallon gas and high food cost.

And here is another Democrat trying to get the working person
another decrease in the value of their dollar.

Keep on voting them in. We will all be poor before it is all over.

Posted by working4u on 05/09/08 - 3:42 pm • Report Abuse

T. Brunson---Wages are going up, last year they moved minimum wage from $5.15 to $5.85. And in late July, minimum wage goes to $6.55 and next year to $7.25

Posted by KxVx on 05/09/08 - 2:58 pm • Report Abuse

None of you get it, do you? Do you really want to lose the option of deducting your state tax when you file federally? Just another instance of emotion preceding logic.

Posted by mremann83 on 05/08/08 - 5:13 pm • Report Abuse

This makes no sense! The gas is going up and so is the cost of food. Our pay is not going up. It seems like they would either give us a cost of living raise or pass this bill. That just goes to show that Alabama senators are not trying to help anyone but themselves.

Posted by xxooxxoo on 05/08/08 - 3:41 pm • Report Abuse

“raise the threshold where a family starts paying the state income tax from $12,600 to $20,000.”

That doesn’t sound right. I claimed $10,651 this year, and I had to send a check of $51 to the State (on top of the couple hundred dollars they already took out of my check.)

Posted by KxVx on 05/08/08 - 3:33 pm • Report Abuse

We will keep our fingers crossed that the bill never makes it. Was glad to see this. Hope the bill never makes it. Who wants to remove the State Sales Tax on groceries if it boils down to the hard working citizens of this state having to make it up by paying more taxes out of their paycheck annually?

The only folks that want this bill to go through are the folks that do not work for a paycheck and are exempt from paying state taxes already.

Posted by working4u on 05/08/08 - 3:02 pm • Report Abuse

stupid money hungry devils. the senate and the government are controled by the devil. think about it. look what’s going on in this world.

Posted by april on 05/08/08 - 2:24 pm • Report Abuse