Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  EllstinLimehouse
writes:  in response to tuscawinah:  Tennessee has one of the
highest state sales taxes in the nation. It is the TOTAL tax
burden faced by citizens that helps to make a state attractive
or unattractive. A state needs to break its revenue needs down
between income taxes, sales taxes, and fees to avoid being
unfairly regressive. Tennessee politicians are simply playing
"feel good" politics by banning an income tax. Surely the
citizens of Tennessee are smart enough to realize that it's the
TOTAL tax burden that counts, regardless of how it is collected!
Do YOU know what your TOTAL tax burden is?  What's the matter
can't find a way around the sales tax? One of the fairest taxes
in the land, everyone pays the same rate (relatively, since each
county can raise or lower their rate as they choose) even those
that do not pay federal income taxes pay sales tax!