Georgia debate features Better South question

About 45 minutes into the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial debate on Sunday, Atlanta Journal-Constitution political reporter Tom Baxter asked a question to Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor on broadening the sales tax. It featured this exchange:

BAXTER: The Center for a Better South recently published a study of tax policy in the region and one of its strongest recommendations was to broaden the sales tax by abolishing things like sales tax holidays and eliminating exemptions like the one you're proposed on medicine and the one you hold up as an example of your record - - the sales tax on food. It might be less politically popular, but wouldn't that proposal cause the burden of taxes to be sh ared more equally and keep the overall tax rate lower?

TAYLOR: The people of Georgia pay too much taxes and the state of Georgia has enough revenue if it will focus on leadership ...

Taylor, who won the Tuesday primary and will face incumbent Gov. Sonny Perdue in November, went on to outline his plans to provide affordable health care to Georgians.