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Endorses ending taxes on Ga. crops
Web posted November 1, 1998
More than one in six Georgians are employed in agribusiness, which generates more than $52 billion a year in revenue. Taxing our home-grown goods means that Georgia's produce, beef and nursery items are less competitive than those of neighboring states.
State lawmakers saw the light this year and unanimously passed a statewide referendum question for Georgia voters to decide the fate of this obnoxious tax. We join every farmer, rancher, grower and consumer in this state in supporting the elimination of the tax on the Nov. 3 statewide ballot by voting ``yes'' on Referendum A.
Tommy and Mike Dudley, Thomson
Editor, The Chronicle:
As a proud part of Georgia's largest industry, agribusiness, we are appalled by the unfair taxation of Georgia crops, cattle and nursery items. No other state in the Southeast penalizes its farmers, growers and ranchers by taxing home-grown goods simply because they are grown and raised in the state.
