🚀 go-pugleaf

In article 9348@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson) writes:
> Several years ago, when Georgia raised the sales tax from 3% to 4%, Zell
> Miller, who was then lieutenant governor and the leader of the state
> senate, led the fight against applying the tax to food and medicine.  He
> wanted to eliminate the latter to offset the increase in revenue from the
> extra point when applied to other items.  He was opposed in this by the
> Speaker of the House, Tom Murphy.  A compromise was reached in which the
> tax was not applied to foodstuffs grown here in Georgia, e.g.  Vidalia
> onions and peanuts (a hand-printed list with Dan-Quayle-esque spelling
> errors was made up late one night by then-governor Joe Frank Harris).  I
> have yet to notice if, in fact, this compromise is uniformly applied.

The compromise was thrown out because it was impossible to apply in practice.
Should things grown outside GA but processed here be taxed? etc.

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