Red state Alabama taxes our breakfast, lunch and supper. Y’all okay with that?

I get a kick out of seeing youngsters pushing a toddler-sized shopping cart around Greers’ (insert your local most convenient grocery store of choice) with the sign: ‘Grocery Shopper in Training.’ It’s cute.

If it was realistic, that little shopping cart would come with a bloated, plantation-era-slave-owning politician stuffed inside like a hog in a suit, blowing orders out of his pie hole.

The grocery tax is just another way to make sure poor folks in Alabama don’t get a leg up on the plantation owners.

Here’s what my colleague Roy S. Johnson has to say:

“Taxing groceries is like taxing air—which is why most states don’t do it.”

Read his column here: Roy S. Johnson: Go on a diet, Alabama lawmakers, ax the grocery tax – al.com

Alabama lawmakers: Do any of you have the chutzpah, the courage, the decency to do the right thing?

Stop taxing groceries.

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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.