Showing posts with label VA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VA. Show all posts

Food sales tax targeted

11:32 AM

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Bill that would lower rate to 4.5% aims to relieve burden on poor

That rate sends some Tennessee residents across the border to states with a lower tax on food. Take Margaret Elliot, a 90-year-old resident of Portland in northern Sumner County. Her daughter, Carol Curry, takes Elliot about twice a month to Kentucky to buy food. Kentucky is one of 36 states with no sales tax on food, but that state has a broad-based income tax. Curry has been taking Elliot across the line to Franklin for at least 10 years. "She likes to go up there to Save-A-Lot or Wal-Mart to get the groceries where she can save her tax money," Curry said of her mother, who is on a fixed income.

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The people setting these high taxes locally like the the ones in K-town. Do not believe we go to neighboring states to do our food commerce. I got news for you, over taxed is over taxed and we will find the bargain, supporting MeadowView is not a bargain it is a BURDEN. I go to Food City in VA and save quite a bit and free gas to top it off. If there was a Wal-Mart in Gate City it would run ours out of town. The Food City in KPT has some of the highest prices. Guess they have to pay for some of that new building.

East TN Conservative

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Rino Season Is Now Open

8:40 AM

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My specialty is making Fedzilla punks squirm and turn into a puddle of sweat and drool. Therefore, in the spirit of famous butt kickers Generals Chesty Puller and George Patton, I say we launch an attack on all fronts. Uncle Ted hereby declares it is open season on RINOs. No bag limits or permits required. Conservative ideas, arguments and votes are the weapons we will use. Hunt them down and shine a blazing light on these RINO turncoat cockroaches. Zero in the “we the people” crosshairs of your voting assault weapon and aim for the RINO pumpstation. Double tap center mass. Whack em and stack em, track em and hack em, pack em and give em no slack. Let’s do to the RINO beasts what we did to the passenger pigeon. Force out of the Republican Party out the subspecies known as RINOs.

We must not make the mistake of keeping the GOP tent so big that there’s room for RINOs. They are in the business of producing conservative defeats. Instead, join me in the new Conservative Revolution. Let’s go out and win another one for the Gipper.

Lets GET EM!!

East TN Conservative

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No Jesus in VA State Police

11:08 AM

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Chaplains step down over prayer decision

By NATE HUBBARD/Staff

If there’s no place for Jesus, it’s no place for Senior Trooper Rex Carter.
Carter, a Smyth County resident who works out of the Virginia State Police’s Division Four headquarters in Wytheville, resigned his role as a police chaplain when the department issued a new policy asking prayers offered at VSP-sponsored public events to be nondenominational.
Regular gatherings covered by the new policy include graduations and an annual state police memorial service. The policy doesn’t apply to private funerals or prayers said with individuals or families.
“The recent policy dealing with the prayer at state police public events is a policy that just by my own convictions I could not agree with and therefore decided to leave the chaplaincy program,” Carter said, explaining that his faith requires him to pray specifically to Jesus Christ.
Six out of the 17 chaplains around the state have resigned, said Corinne Geller, VSP public relations manager.
Two other chaplains that Carter said also resigned, 1st Sgt. Mike Honaker of the Pulaski County office and Trooper Greg Barnett of the Buchanan County office, could not be reached for comment.
The chaplain position is a volunteer role taken on by troopers in addition to their regular law enforcement duties. Carter and the other chaplains who tenured their resignations therefore remain employed with the department in other capacities.
According to a VSP news release, the new policy instituted by Col. Steven Flaherty, VSP superintendent, came in response to a July ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Turner vs. City Council of Fredericksburg.

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Nothing but crickets in the local media.