Legislation to Eliminate the State Income Tax?

[belleislerunner]

Most of us visit "nicer" communities and come away thinking - wow that place is nice and clean and functions well.

What you might not now are these cities [[e.g. Scottsdale, AZ) charge tax on every purchase - even food in their city - even if state or federal does not. An added 1.65%
http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/taxes/faq

Even if we just taxed all food universally at 2% - we'd raise a boatload of money for infrastructure.

[ABetterDetroit]

Most of us visit "nicer" communities and come away thinking - wow that place is nice and clean and functions well.

What you might not now are these cities [[e.g. Scottsdale, AZ) charge tax on every purchase - even food in their city - even if state or federal does not. An added 1.65%
http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/taxes/faq

Even if we just taxed all food universally at 2% - we'd raise a boatload of money for infrastructure.

Most logical post so far.

We don't tax food because it's a necessity and that would be morally wrong yet the tax on rent is so high in our economically challenged largest city that 10s of thousands of people are thrown out of their homes annually. That process has been shown to be very expensive from blight, demolition, failed schools, incarceration, bankruptcy, lost economic activity and opportunity, tax incentives... a truely endless costly problem.

Housing is just as critical as food economically.