Haslam to legislators itching to kill the Hall tax: Show me the money

With legislators already filing legislation to do away with the state's tax on income from dividends and interest on investments, Gov. Bill Haslam challenged them to prove that the state can afford the $280 million that would go along with it.

"I'd love to see us do away with it. Right now, the revenue situation that I think we're going to be in for the next year or two, I don't see that happening," Haslam told the Rotary Club of Nashville at a luncheon Monday.