Gov. Haley Barbour vetoed a bill Wednesday that would phase out a state sales tax on groceries and increase the tax on cigarettes.
"It's irresponsible to cut Mississippi's budget revenue while we're trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina," the Republican said.
Barbour, a former Washington lobbyist for tobacco companies, called the proposal "ill-conceived, barely researched, poorly timed and passed in great haste."
The bill, which zipped through the Senate and House at the start of the 2006 session, would eliminate the 7 percent grocery tax by 2014. [Read more - SFGate]
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