Jackson Jambalaya

How embarassing for Tater if he has to stand with other governors before his billionaire lords and masters in D.C. and confess his state still has that socialist income tax. This should not spoil his big moment. We must spare him that shame by any means necessary!

Cutting taxes when our state has shortfalls in Medicaid coverage, mental health expansion, infrastructure improvements & many other needs is shortsighted. But it sure plays to the politicians re-election.

All hail Mammon. RINO fetishes carried out for the taxdodging .01%.

Higher taxes for the middle class.

Joined at the hips with the Oligarch Dems and sellout CEOs. Offshoring jobs or onshoring illegal alien labor. Pretending to be conservative and patriotic. LIARS.

No wonder they want to run a Mormon billionaire for Guv. Of course they do.

@10:51 The Medicaid issue is easy. Nobody under 65 qualifies for taxpayer health benefits anymore.

No more benefits for able-bodied and non-working military aged people. If you have children with disabilities and you choose to keep them, then you pay for them.

If Christians don't want to abort their deformed offspring then they better be prepared to pay the bills entirely on their own. Why should my taxes be used to pay for them?

@11:09 AM What you are describing is rootless, cosmopolitan globalism. As popularized by a people living apart in a diaspora. They care not about the citizens they exploit because they consider them nothing more than a commodity.

Oppress the middle and lower classes and chase any relief for the ruling upper class has always been Mississippi's fomula for "economic prosperity". That's our history. It's nothing new and it has never worked. All it has ever done is to perpetuate the plantation economy and turn away upwardly mobile young people. We stay the course.

10:23 as a taxpayer myself, I would say it's the people being asked to pay the taxes that are of primary concern...not anyone in DC. And I don't care if it's city, state or federal...I prefer to keep as much of the money I earn as possible. And when I see the waste and graft and giving away of free money to other countries...I would say there's plenty of room to make it work.

They are telling us that eliminating the income tax will lead to higher sales taxes and most likely higher property taxes. For all of us retired people who most likely don’t pay income taxes we are looking at a tax increase. Higher sales taxes, higher gasoline taxes, higher property taxes. It’s the bait and switch, they can campaign with the slogan of eliminating income taxes.
Folks, it takes money to provide services, so unless our elected representatives can show where they plan to cut services in the amount equal to the tax cut, then all they will be doing is swapping one tax for another.

To compensate for no income taxes, Property taxes pick up the slack in Austin, TX. So rents are sky high and property owners have to routinely hire property assessment/valuation experts to appeal sky high property taxes. Many area hiways are tollway which photo one's tag for monthly billing. MS's retired population, who no longer have income other than SS checks, will pay more sales taxes and property tax.

Raise the tax on gasoline. It's time to start taxing those who suck at the state tit and pay almost zero taxes. I assume they have to pay for their own gasoline, unlike their groceries and medical necessities.

Lowering the grocery portion of the sales tax won't affect them, since they don't pay it anyway, but it will sure as hell affect the rest of us positively.

And raise the tax on ammunition, rims and window tint.

The post at 1:16 is exactly right. And all Mr. Speakuh and the Light Gubnah are doing is whatever they think will be in their best political interest.

Not quoted here by Bill, but another major part of Speaker White's "tax cutting" is the addition of a 5% sales tax on gasoline - a significant tax on most everyone regardless of income, but proof that just like former Speaker Gunn's proposals, the House is not interested in CUTTING taxes but SWAPPING taxes. While White has hidden his attempt a little more artfully than Gunn who simply wanted to raise ALL sales taxes to 9.5% in order to reduce the state income tax. White has hidden his swap - raising sales taxes on everything but groceries, adding a tax on gasoline, suggesting local sales tax additions to cover for his grocery tax reduction.

All in all, its still a tax "swap" rather than a tax "cut",

The saying is old, very old, but still true. The only sure things in life are death, and taxes. There will be taxes, we can argue about death after we get there.

All you advocates of taxes. Californians are the most taxed people in America, and just look where they have ended up. Look to yourselves, not some government that is promising you a good life.

Same troll posting many of the comments above with the same spin as they've deposited here many times previously. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Couldn’t agree more! @ 1:16 and 3:35, this mathing is broken!