PAGE 9 — The Georgia Bulletin, February 12, 1987
Taking Tax Off Food
Is Aim Of One Bill
DADS’ DAY — As part of Catholic Schools Week, some of the fathers
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their kids. Above, left to right, Robbie Anderson, Stephanie Pond,
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ABC's "Amerika"
Pax Christi Opposes Series
BY PAULA DAY
Legislation to exempt
food from sales taxes is
pending in the Georgia
General Assembly, accord
ing to Sandra Robertson,
spokesperson for Georgia
Citizens Coalition on
Hunger.
House Bill 90 calling for
exemption from sales and
use tax on food for human
consumption was introduc
ed Jan. 13 and now is in the
Ways and Means Commit
tee. No hearing has been
scheduled. The bill is con
siderably broader than
bills introduced in previous
years which limited the ex
emption to food sold for off-
premise consumption. The
current bill includes food in
restaurants.
Rep. Tyrone Brooks, of
the 34th District (Fulton
County), is primary author
of the bill. Co-sponsors are
Sanford Bishop, of Colum
bus; Frank Redding, Jr.,
50th District, (Decatur);
Mable Thomas, 31st
District, (Atlanta), Charles
Walker, (Augusta), and
John White, (Albany).
Key legislators who will
be involved in passage of
any tax reform bills are
Rep. Joe Mack Wilson of
Cobb County who chairs
the House Ways and Means
Committee; Rep. Lauren
(Bubba) McDonald of
Commerce, chairman of
the House Appropriations
Committee; and Sen. Ter
rell Starr, Clayton, who
heads up the Senate Ap
propriations Committee.
Opposition to exempting
food from taxation comes
from those concerned
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about revenues lost to the
state treasury, according
to Ms. Robertson. Other
wise, she points out, since
everyone buys food, no one
objects to its being tax free.
However, she adds, most of
low income peoples’ earn
ings are used for buying
food and other necessities
and so taxes on such
necessities place an unfair
burden on the poor.
Georgia’s present in
come tax laws have been in
effect since 1937. A general
overhaul to bring them in
line with recent federal in
come tax reforms would be
timely, Ms. Robertson
observes.
In such an overhaul,
some supporters of food-
tax exemption see an op
portunity to recover
revenues lost if the sales
tax on food is eliminated.
They also point out that at
the present time Georgia
taxpayers can take advan
tage of approximately 60
loopholes on various sales
taxes. Many of these ex
emptions, advocates for
tax-free food claim, should
be examined and possibly
eliminated. This elimina
tion of loopholes would put
tax dollars into the state
treasury.
Georgia has had a
substantial budget surplus
for the last four years.
Some proponents suggest
that tax-free food would
simply help balance the
budget in favor of the
state’s over-taxed citizens.
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Fair Tax Coalition, parent
group of the Coalition on
Hunger, feel this year is
key in the effort to pass
food sales tax exemption
bills.
A grass-roots group, the
Coalition does not lobby for
legislation, it works to in
form, educate and make
tax reform an issue for the
general public.
The Coalition provides
postcards urging legis
lators to support tax ex
emption on food and utili
ties. It recently organized
volunteers to canvass a
Cobb County neighborhood.
The volunteers asked citi
zens to write their elected
officials to support tax re
form.
On Feb. 5, a group of ap
proximately 200 citizens
from throughout the state,
organized by the Coalition,
met with legislators for
lunch. In this less pres
sured environment. Coali
tion members raised issues
affecting the poor. They
sought to deepen under
standing on the part of
lawmakers of the need for
tax exemption laws on
necessities.
Persons interested in the
issue of tax reform can con
tact the Fair Tax Coalition
project, 136 Marietta St.
N.W., Room 220, Atlanta.
They can also make their
views known to the
legislators mentioned
above.
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Pax Christi USA members
have been urged to request
“substantial airtime’’ of
ABC-TV to criticize
"Amerika,” the network’s
nearly 15-hour miniseries
about life in the United
States under Soviet occupa
tion.
The request is one of
several efforts by peace
and disarmament groups to
counter what has been call
ed the production’s “Soviet-
bashing."
The Atonement Friars
have filed a stockholder
resolution with Capital
Cities, the ABC-TV parent
company, to object to the
program and to call for
policies that ensure that
future programs are
“reasonably balanced.”
According to an ABC
synopsis, the plot centers on
an America 10 years after
Soviet occupation. The
country is ruled by a puppet
regime in the White House
manipulated by the KGB,
and the country is patrolled
by forces in the United Na
tions Special Service Unit
who set fire to houses, run
down innocent people with
tanks and rape women.
The series is scheduled to
run for seven nights be
tween Feb. 15 and Feb. 22.
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