Miss. considers slicing grocery tax
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Mollie Hudson, a social worker, has some hungry boys to feed and a pocketbook that can barely keep up.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 18--A proposed federal farm bill could see some local farmers losing their subsidies and others gaining much needed dollars for research, development and marketing.
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City officials are considering a proposal to slap a 17-cent surcharge on paper or plastic shopping bags, a debate sure to be watched as a bellwether for other communities.
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WASHINGTON Worry about debt is weighing on shoppers this holiday season. But it&#39;s not keeping them from paying with plastic. Those are the findings of an Associated Press poll.
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Governor Deval L. Patrick is looking to companies to cough up nearly $800 million more in tax payments over the next two years, through what he calls "closing loopholes." But businesses call the seven proposed changes job-killing tax increases.
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SHELBY, Miss. -- From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers' incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.
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BURLINGTON -- For two weeks Governor Deval L. Patrick has been talking tough about cracking down on companies exploiting what he calls corporate tax loopholes to save over $300 million a year in state taxes.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 18--The push for a constitutional amendment to designate a portion of the sales tax for natural resources programs is the big outdoors issue -- again -- this year in the Minnesota Legislature.
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QUINCY -- Tara Withington, with her two young sons in tow, combs the aisles of Hannaford Bros. Co. supermarket for what she deems healthy enough to feed her family. Besides reading ingredients and studying her fruit for bruises, Withington says she needs a guarantee the organic foods she buys are kept far, far away from the store's conventional products.
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The government grocery store has run out of chicken, milk and sugar, but Katiuska Oliveros is still pleased to find rice, margarine and pasta at exceedingly low prices, emblazoned with promotional slogans like "When the people have needs, its revolutionary government responds!" The 27-year-old mother fills her shopping basket, adding in beans, matches and two bottles of cooking oil, and moves on to the cash register where she hands over the equivalent of $5.12 &#151; easily half what she would pay at a commercial supermarket.
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The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry their groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on each plastic bag grabbed at the register.
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The looming political battle over how to reform the tangled U.S. income tax code could get ugly. But one option, a tax aimed at boosting savings, holds promise.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham  Clinton said on Tuesday she might seek to scrap certain  corporate tax breaks and subject CEO pay to public scrutiny if  elected president in November 2008.
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To former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, supporting a national retail sales tax is more than a policy proposal. It has provided much-needed muscle for his campaign, filling rallies and events with fervent supporters hoping to replace the entire income and payroll tax system.
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By Kevin Begos, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 9--TALLAHASSEE -- There are cuts in Gov. Charlie Crist's proposed budget for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, but even activists say the good news outweighs the bad.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 16--An extra cent on the bed tax would be the most practical way to give extra county funding to the Destin Beach Safety Patrol, Okaloosa County Commissioner James Campbell says.