Lawmakers love taxes, maybe not raising them, but they surely love having them, and they don’t want to give up what they have.

The Simplified Seller Use Tax is sending money all over the state, but the bigger cities do not like it; they want to keep more of their locally collected SSUT.

But the counties have already borrowed against their share, so it seems unlikely they are going to give up a good chunk of that without a fight

Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.