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“One thing that is clear, its not gray its black and white, Jesus was with the poor, and this is an attack on the poor,” said Allen Sanchez of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, moments after the Senate Finance Committee passed an omnibus tax bill that includes a tax on food.
The bill is three wrapped into one and while there are tax measure Sanchez and the Conference support, the food tax has been their biggest enemy in the Roundhouse.
“No matter what they do to the bill to add things, as long as that food tax is in there, we will line up with the poor and oppose it,” Sanchez said.
The food tax is also the target of many other groups, but it was the NMCCB who brought 12,000 tortillas to the roundhouse to protest the idea during the regular session. The fact that the bill is now part of a larger measure does not sway Sanchez who believes there are political motivations behind the make up of the bill.
“The bishops and the church always have to align with the gospel, you cant pick and choose in the gospel,” he said.
In the video below, Sanchez explains he will continue to fight the measure and try to get the food tax defeated as it moves through the Senate, saying, “We’re going to push it to the end. Where else are we going to go? We must line up with poor. That’s why we’re here.”
