Show your support for cutting the food tax. Take an hour during lunch time on Monday, June 4th, 11:30am to 12:15pm.

This will most likely be the last week of the legislative session!

On Monday the legislature will consider legislation that could reduce the food tax in our state and with your help it could become a reality. We want you to stand with us and witness to the need for cutting the food tax. Legislators will walk by us as thy go into their chamber. This is a critical time because Tennessee has the highest food tax in the nation and pressure is building to ease this burden, especially for those who are least able to pay these taxes when putting food on the table for their family. For more information, go to http://www.yourtax.org/foodtaxswap/

Please come to the Legislative Plaza to show your support for a cut in the food tax. Supporters of a cut will be meeting at the Legislative Plaza cafeteria just before 11:30am and stay until 12:15pm to show legislators their support for cutting the food tax.

This action will only be effective if enough people show-up to make a stand. So if you can volunteer your lunch hour Monday please show-up.

If you absolutely can’t come then please send an email to your legislator and let them know that Tennessee has the highest food tax in the nation and now is the time to reduce it. Email all 132 state legislators. Go to: http://www.yourtax.org/action/index.php3

Message: Tennessean needs a permanent, across-the-board, year-round food tax cut, paid for with an increase in the state cigarette tax. With the highest food tax in the nation and one of the lowest cigarette taxes, this tax swap is a common-sense solution that most Tennesseans support. 

Please pass this along to your friends, family and coworkers.

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Tony Garr, tgarr@thcc2.org, http://www.thcc2.org/

Tennessee Health Care Campaign

1103 Chapel Ave., Nashville, TN 37206

1- 877- 431- 7083