Mississippi’s top legislative leaders on Monday unveiled details of their different plans to cut state taxes and potentially expand Medicaid coverage to the working poor, likely two of the main issues that will be debated at the Capitol over the next three months of the 2025 legislative session.
Republican Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said he intends to push a proposal through the Senate to trim the state’s income and grocery taxes, while House Speaker Jason White wants to abolish the income tax altogether and slash the grocery tax in half.
Hosemann, the leader of the Senate, at a Monday Stennis Capitol Press Forum proposed immediately lowering the state’s 7% sales tax on grocery items to 5% and trimming the state’s 4% income tax down to 3% over the next four years…