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"Part of it is human nature: People benefit a little bit every day from the sales taxes eliminated in 2002 by passage of the Stelly Plan. But everybody notices when they write a larger check for state income tax. Lawmakers are responding to aggrieved, mostly affluent constituents who pay big income tax bills.

"Part of it is human nature: People benefit a little bit every day from the sales taxes eliminated in 2002 by passage of the Stelly Plan. But everybody notices when they write a larger check for state income tax. Lawmakers are responding to aggrieved, mostly affluent constituents who pay big income tax bills.

"This is a commonly cited problem with the sales tax: even the low-income folks who are hit hardest by it often don't notice, because they pay a nickel here and a nickel there rather than one big lump sum. If people don't notice the sales tax when they pay it, it's easy to understand that they wouldn't notice when (as a result of the Stelly sales tax cuts) they're not longer paying it. . . . "<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisianataxblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/advocate-keep-stelly-plan.html|title=Keep the Stelly Plan"|date=May 11, 2007|publisher=louisianataxblog.blogspot.com|accessdate=October 27, 2009}}</ref>

"This is a commonly cited problem with the sales tax: even the low-income folks who are hit hardest by it often don't notice, because they pay a nickel here and a nickel there rather than one big lump sum. If people don't notice the sales tax when they pay it, it's easy to understand that they wouldn't notice when (as a result of the Stelly sales tax cuts) they're not longer paying it. . . . "<ref>{{cite web|url=http://louisianataxblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/advocate-keep-stelly-plan.html|title=Keep the Stelly Plan"|date=May 11, 2007|publisher=louisianataxblog.blogspot.com|accessdate=April 15, 2021}}</ref>

==Stelly critics==

==Stelly critics==