Tennesseans for Fair Taxation (TFT) is a Tennessee political advocacy group advocating tax reform, particularly at the state level.As a grassroots group of generally low and moderate income families, Tennesseans for Fair Taxation is allied with state public employee and schoolteacher groups in establishing a progressive, broad-based state income tax. This group notes that Tennessee is shown by almost all objective measures to have one of the lowest per capita burden of the fifty U.S. states but that the burden is disproportionately placed upon poorer people. This is because the majority of state tax revenues in Tennessee are derived from a sales tax. In Tennessee, food for human consumption is taxed at 6% and most other items of commerce at 7%, with local jurisdictions empowered to add as much as another 2.75% to this, making the overall sales tax rate in many jurisdictions, including the major urban areas, 8.75% on food and 9.75% on other items.

Greg Mankiw says that giving poor people more food stamps on a cyclical basis serves to destabilize their budget and consumption. Felix Salmon, in turn, wonders if he'd turn down more money if it came only at certain times of the year. "But maybe Mankiw is sophisticated enough to cope with such income volatility, unlike poor people"

My condolence to the family.

New statistics from the Department of Public Social Services reveal that illegal aliens and their families in Los Angeles County collected over $37 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in November 2007 – up $3 million dollars from September, announced Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

This disturbing interview tells you about Academe's dirty little secret -- and this is just stratching the surface of the problem!

All of this I am to do with just a piece of chalk, a computer, a few books, a bulletin board, a big smile AND on a starting salary that qualifies my family for food stamps! You want me to do all of this and then you tell me…I CAN’T PRAY?!!”