State Rep. Jamie Franks, the lone Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, promised to support a cigarette tax increase and challenged the two Republican candidates to do the same.
“No way,” Bryant said. “As a Republican, it’s not my nature to sign a pledge to increase taxes.”
Said Ross: “I’m not into making pledges to increase people’s taxes, especially when the overall tax burden on Mississippi needs to be reduced going forward.”
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