Proposal to remove food tax fails in Alabama House
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 KIM CHANDLER News staff writer

MONTGOMERY - A proposal to remove the 4 percent state sales tax on food failed Tuesday in the Alabama House of Representatives on a procedural vote that fell largely along party lines.

Democrats were three votes short of the number needed to bring the bill up for debate and couldn't overcome Republican opposition to a provision to pay for the $400 million tax cut by phasing out an income tax deduction for the state's top earners. "This bill is about helping the people that go to work every day. These are the people who really need help in this day and time," sponsor Rep. John Knight, D-Montgomery, said.

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Editor's Note -- You have to read further down in this article to see that the reason Republicans voted against this bill was because it increased the taxes for small busineses. As usual what you find in the Old Media is not reporting of the news, insteas they print their liberal bias in a way that they hope will reshape the outcome.