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Miss. Senate defeats resolution to file new bill to cut grocery tax, boost cigarette tax 

The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday defeated an attempt to cut the state's 7 percent grocery tax in half and boost the cigarette tax.

Gov. Haley Barbour opposes the plan. He says the time is not right to reduce the grocery tax because Mississippi still faces too much economic uncertainty in its recovery from Hurricane Katrina. On the cigarette portion, he says he opposes raising anybody's taxes.

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