Tennessee has no state income tax, so they'll need something to suppliment the loss if this passes. Last time I was there non-food sales tax in almost every county was close to 10%, which is already quite high.

Good, these are the real taxes to cut. Instead of the ones on private airplanes.

Y'all have an extra tax on groceries? TF?

In Canada, a whole host of categories including basic groceries are HST (sales tax) exempt. For the curious, there's a list on this website

As someone who lives in New York City, I am very surprised to hear that anybody anywhere pays sales tax on groceries.

Remember, no income tax in TN

Errr. Why am I paying more tax on groceries here then?

I was confused because I never lived in a state that charged tax on groceries till now, but why would this say 4.. what's the rest from

Edit: so it's strange.. Gallon of milk from Kroger 2.99, adds 20 cents sales tax. That's 7%. So an extra 3% from local sales tax.

That means that even if they drop this 4% TN local taxes might still be on groceries. So the lowest according to this chart would be 2% on food, and highest 2.75%.

Personally I'd like to see no sales taxes (at any level of government) on anything intended to be ingested, injected, or otherwise absorbed by a body (not limited to human!) - in other words food and medicine, including for pets, in any of the states that have sales taxes.

(I'd be ok with an exception (left taxable) for recreational drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol, but that's debatable too.)