Several legislators said Thursday that they expect the General Assembly will significantly cut the state sales tax on groceries in the legislative session that starts Jan. 8.

Lawmakers will grapple with the best way to do it, they said.

“I have a sense of a mood in the General Assembly that this is a better possibility than it’s ever been,” said Sen. Jim Hill of Nashville. “I sense there is a mood in the General Assembly in these good times to do that.”

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