A growing number of states have cut grocery taxes to relieve working Americans struggling with runaway inflation.
Five of the 13 states that taxed groceries last year — Kansas, Idaho, Illinois, Tennessee and Virginia — have since passed laws reducing their cut from supermarket transactions. That cut ranges from 4% to 7%, depending on the state.
Taxing food as prices rise creates unfair burdens for Americans who spend larger shares of their income on groceries, according to the food industry association FMI.
“Grocery taxes are fundamentally bad public policy because they disproportionately impact lower-income families,” Andy Harig, an FMI vice president, told The Washington Times.