Issue Position: State and Local Taxes

Issue Position

I support removing the state sales tax on groceries, but liberals have called for accomplishing this by repealing Alabamians' ability to deduct their federal income taxes from their state taxes, which, in my opinion, would result in an overall tax increase on working families and allow income that taxpayers already sent to the federal government to be unfairly double-taxed by the state. For any repeal effort to work, the state must prohibit cities and counties from raising taxes on groceries after the state has reduced them, or at least require a local referendum to be approved beforehand.

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