"...Military pensions would be exempt from state income tax under a proposal announced Thursday by a freshman legislator.
Rep. Jesse Petrea, R-Savannah, said he would pay for his plan by boosting the tax on cigarettes 28 cents per pack...
A tax-exemption for vets sponsored in the last session of the General Assembly by the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee stalled because of the projected drain on the state treasury.
“I knew I had to find a way to pay for it,” said Petrea"
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