Artur Davis On Grocery Taxes

Artur Davis is the first Alabama gubernatorial candidate I can remember talking about the state’s unfair tax burden. For that reason alone I am eager to see him win. It always irks me to hear people try to excuse Alabama’s low-property-tax scheme because “we’re a poor state ” –  our tax code keeps us that way. Millionaires pay a lower effective rate of tax than indigent wage-earners because we tax the costs of living rather than taxing wealth. That’s your 1901 state constitution at work, and it needs to change.