House Democrat – not Phil Bryant – created sales tax holiday

PHIL BRYANT

As Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Bryant swings across the state taking credit for this weekend’s sales tax holiday, Better Mississippi Report wants to set the record straight.

Other than serving as president of the state Senate, Bryant had NOTHING to do with the legislation.

State Rep. Percy Watson, a Democrat from Hattiesburg and chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, sponsored the sales tax holiday legislation. He and other Democratic Party leaders in the House are the reason this passed and became law.