Alabama has a total of 61 different taxes. Half comes from income tax, a big part comes from sales tax, and the rest from the state's other taxes, including property tax.
The Governor and the Legislature just take these same taxes and stir them in a pot and make them come out in different proportions to different tax payers, including businesses as well as individuals, trying to make us believe they're giving us a tax cut. I don't think any politician understands that if businesses pay taxes, they just add it to the cost of doing business and pass it along to the consumers who end up paying all the taxes, so why do that? The Federal Government does the same thing.
All politicians think, "How much money do we need to spend," and proceed to find ways to commit legal plunder in the form of taxes to get what they WANT from the taxpayers to do their deeds. A politician during one election went around saying, "If you support me and I win, I'll give this group $5,000." And he could do that because each commissioner has a discretionary fund from our tax dollars to spend any way he pleases, even for campaign bribes.