Grocery tax unpopular, but cutting it hasn't been winner for politicians
Politicians’ efforts to eliminate or reduce Mississippi’s grocery tax have been unsuccessful despite what appears to be widespread support for doing so.
Various polls have found that a majority of Mississippians favor reducing or eliminating the state’s sales tax on groceries.
A Chism Strategies/Millsaps Poll earlier this year found that nearly 70 percent of Mississippians supported reducing or eliminating the tax. In 2006, 71 percent favored reducing the grocery tax and increasing the tax on cigarettes in a poll conducted by the Mellman Group.
But thus far politicians who have chosen to take up the cause of reducing the 7 percent tax have not fared well on a statewide level.
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