Hot Springs, Ark.-The Arkansas Farm Bureau says press coverage didn’t get it straight reporting that Gov. Mike Beebe indicated that tax cuts being proposed by lawmakers next year could jeopardize exemptions on agriculture products such as fertilizer. But that’s not the way Farm Bureau representatives heard it. Actually, according to Farm Bureau spokesman Steve Eddington, the governor’s comments were made while stressing his continued support for maintaining sales tax exemptions for ag input items. “He, in fact, said the exemptions remain a priority for Farm Bureau and emphasized that it will remain a top priority in the governor’s office as long as he’s alive and as long as he’s the governor,” Eddington commented. “I think the news article went askew with that comment. It was not my sense, after hearing the governor speak, that he was sounding the alarm about some coming change in tax policy. He was basically saying ‘I’ve got your back’ on that issue.”
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