Kermit Moore, Vonda McDaniel, Christine Fox, June Rostan and Dustin Park
- Tennessee for All is a statewide coalition of faith, labor, and community organizations representing hundreds of thousands of people from Memphis to Mountain City.
Reflecting on the 2024 Tennessee state legislative session, once again, instead of a convening of popularly elected leaders working to address the needs of their constituents, it unfolded like a bad reality TV show with onlookers choosing sides in the drama of the day.
For the second straight year, the biggest “accomplishment” of the term was a multibillion tax break – and refund – for big corporations.
While Tennesseans struggle with the rising cost of groceries, housing, child care, and every other aspect of life, it is hard to find a single thing legislators did that would improve anyone’s quality of life.
There were opportunities, like Rep. Aftyn Behn, D-Nashville, and Sen. Charlane Oliver, D-Nashville,’s bill to eliminate the tax on groceries paid for by closing tax loopholes on the biggest corporations, but that proposal was ridiculed by people like Majority Leader William Lamberth, R-Portland, and Rep. Johnny Garrett, R-Goodlettsville. The latter of which amended the bill to preserve the corporate tax loopholes, essentially killing it.