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The Nashville City Paper says in an editorial that the Republican proposal to reduce and eventually eliminate Tennessee's sales tax on food "has merit" and says Gov. Phil Bredesen "has unfortunately gone on the offensive" against the Republican effort to phase out the food tax over the next decade. "It is an idea that has real merit and could positively impact the wallet of some of Tennessee's neediest families," says the City Paper, bemoaning that, "right out of the gate, the administration is against any kind of tax cut despite whopping surpluses and ahead of schedule revenues for several years in a row." Bredesen's opposition to cutting the food tax "is the wrong approach," the paper says. "We urge the administration to give the concept of a tax cut on food serious thought."
The Nashville City Paper says in an 