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EDITORIAL: State lawmakers have proven to be consistently inconsistent 

On Thursday, the Mississippi Senate gave its final approval to a bill that would reduce sales taxes on tickets to some athletic and livestock events. Senate Finance Committee chairman Tommy Robertson, R-Moss Point, urged his colleagues to approve the measure cutting taxes on tickets to state-sanctioned athletic and livestock events from 7 percent to 3 percent.

Meanwhile, Robertson and Gov. Haley Barbour continue to blow smoke at all legitimate - and needed - efforts to reduce the state's grocery tax and blocking all attempts to increase the state cigarette tax to $1 a pack.

Credit Robertson and Barbour for their consistent inconsistency. Both are avid supporters of tax cuts. That's the consistent part. But both have turned their backs on Mississippians who want and deserve lower grocery taxes while catering to those interests opposed to higher cigarette taxes that would bring the state in line with other states.

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