HB1 cuts the state's personal income-tax rate from 4% to 3% between 2027 and 2030, as part of a process for reducing the income-tax rate to zero when specified revenue triggers are met.
The Senate passed HB1 on March 18, 2025, by a vote of 32 to 16. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the income tax is an immoral, anti-constitutional act of government-imposed theft that takes from people the wages they have rightfully earned. It turns citizens into slaves. A person's property, including their income, belongs solely to them—not the state. The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment expressly affirm that "No State" shall unjustly "deprive any person" of "liberty, or property." Mississippi must reject tyrannical, big government by protecting the "pursuit of Happiness," particularly the right to enjoy the fruit of one's own labor.
