Alabama Food Tax Bill

April Fool’s Day Vote No Joke

April 1st, 2009

Republicans block million-dollar compromise, preventing average, working Alabama families tax relief. Forty-two republicans (some representing districts with unemployment rates as high as 18.9%) and one democrat, Richard Laird (representing districts with an average unemployment rate of 15%) reject Knight’s revised proposal sacrificing food on Alabama tables to preserve federal income tax deductions for taxpayers making $1.2 million.

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