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Hope the legislature figures this out soon.
- Good News For Bird Lovers
The American bald eagle population is making a recovery across the nation, but Mississippi still remains one of the least likely places to spot a pair in the wild, according to a state ornithologist. Read the rest in The Mississippi Press. ...
- Report Urges Lower Food Taxes In Mississippi
Coast municipalities from Waveland to Pascagoula will gain in sales tax revenues if the Mississippi Legislature passes a cigarette tax increase/food tax reduction bill, according to a report released last month by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government...
- Sid Salter Questions Why Families Are Forced To Pay Higher Taxes On Necessities Then Cigarettes
Therefore, the priority of Mississippi government — Gov. Haley Barbour the lead dog and his lapdogs in the state Senate chief among them — is that we keep the 4-out-of-4 Mississippians who must purchase gasoline to get to work, school and church paying...
- Mississippi Universities
Universities in Mississippi get few $'s, then other educational entities and less money then they did in the past. Indeed, where state dollars funded half of university operating budgets in 1990, state dollars fund only 25 percent of those budgets...
- What's Wrong With Mississippi?
From the Mississippi Press The state has the third lowest cigarette tax rate in the nation and one of the highest grocery tax rates. One would think one of the nation's poorest states would have just the opposite; a high tax on tobacco and a low tax...
Animals
Taxes in Mississippi
Mississippi has the highest state sales tax on groceries - 7 percent - in the nation. That is far too much.
Mississippi has the third-lowest excise tax on a pack of cigarettes - 18 cents - in the nation. That is far too little.
Hope the legislature figures this out soon.
- Good News For Bird Lovers
The American bald eagle population is making a recovery across the nation, but Mississippi still remains one of the least likely places to spot a pair in the wild, according to a state ornithologist. Read the rest in The Mississippi Press. ...
- Report Urges Lower Food Taxes In Mississippi
Coast municipalities from Waveland to Pascagoula will gain in sales tax revenues if the Mississippi Legislature passes a cigarette tax increase/food tax reduction bill, according to a report released last month by the John C. Stennis Institute of Government...
- Sid Salter Questions Why Families Are Forced To Pay Higher Taxes On Necessities Then Cigarettes
Therefore, the priority of Mississippi government — Gov. Haley Barbour the lead dog and his lapdogs in the state Senate chief among them — is that we keep the 4-out-of-4 Mississippians who must purchase gasoline to get to work, school and church paying...
- Mississippi Universities
Universities in Mississippi get few $'s, then other educational entities and less money then they did in the past. Indeed, where state dollars funded half of university operating budgets in 1990, state dollars fund only 25 percent of those budgets...
- What's Wrong With Mississippi?
From the Mississippi Press The state has the third lowest cigarette tax rate in the nation and one of the highest grocery tax rates. One would think one of the nation's poorest states would have just the opposite; a high tax on tobacco and a low tax...