No Movement In Legislature On Mississippi's Budget

(AP) — The Mississippi legislature did not make much progress on ironing out a budget Sunday, after a contentious process the day before. The squabble boils down to a fight between leadership over a would-be internet sales tax wrapped into the bond bill that would have helped fix Mississippi's ailing roads and bridges. "The internet sales tax legislation that they pushed created fake money, in my opinion, and I simply wasn't willing to do that," the state's Republican lieutenant governor, Tate Reeves, said Saturday night.

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