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September 21, 2017 9:44 AM Subscribe
“This is the building of the new society,” he said, adding later: “For so long Mississippi has been known as the symbol of limits. It has been known as a haven for oppression, for some of the most horrible suffering in the history of the world. So it is only fitting that we should become the leaders of that change.” - In Jackson Mississippi, a new vision of society istaking root with its bold new mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba - The Socialist Experiment - Oxford American
During his brief tenure, the late mayor had asked the city to vote on a new 1 percent sales tax to help begin to pay for the infrastructure fixes the city desperately needed. He’d helped organize People’s Assemblies to provide forums to answer Jacksonians’ questions about the proposal. Voters approved the new tax with 90 percent in favor.
If I understand Mississippi law correctly, that 90% support for a sales tax to improve infrastructure means less than it should. Mississippi has a 7% state sales tax, and the Mississippi State Tax Commission is supposed to disburse a portion of the revenue to municipalities. Since 1968, cities have been barred from levying and collecting their own sales tax unless the state legislature gives them permission to do so.
posted by layceepee at 10:48 AM on September 21, 2017
If I understand Mississippi law correctly, that 90% support for a sales tax to improve infrastructure means less than it should. Mississippi has a 7% state sales tax, and the Mississippi State Tax Commission is supposed to disburse a portion of the revenue to municipalities. Since 1968, cities have been barred from levying and collecting their own sales tax unless the state legislature gives them permission to do so.
posted by layceepee at 10:48 AM on September 21, 2017
Since 1968, cities have been barred from levying and collecting their own sales tax unless the state legislature gives them permission to do so.
Miss. Code Ann. Sec 27-65-241 authorizes certain municipalities to impose a 1% local sales tax.
posted by melissasaurus at 12:08 PM on September 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Miss. Code Ann. Sec 27-65-241 authorizes certain municipalities to impose a 1% local sales tax.
posted by melissasaurus at 12:08 PM on September 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Anybody has to be better than their last mayor who actually argued for praying potholes away.
posted by Megafly at 12:10 PM on September 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Megafly at 12:10 PM on September 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Oof, Jackson mayors. There's a history there of disproving "anybody has to be better."
posted by billjings at 12:46 PM on September 21, 2017
posted by billjings at 12:46 PM on September 21, 2017
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"I’ve been labeled as a radical. My father was labeled as a radical. You were told that he would divide the city and what was demonstrated was something entirely different. Honestly, when people call me a radical, I take it as a badge of honor. Because Martin Luther King was radical. Medgar Evers was radical. Jesus Christ was radical. The reality is that we have to be prepared to be as radical as circumstances dictate we should be. If you look outside these doors and you see a need for a change, then you should all be radical. And the reality is that we haven’t found ourselves in the condition we’re in because someone has been too radical for us. I would argue we haven’t been radical enough."
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