Home / Phoenix City Council OKs plan to start phasing out food tax / 16-food-inside 16-food-inside By: Jeff Turner October 17, 2013 , 8:06 am Councilman Michael Johnson, who voted against the proposal to phase out an ???emergency??? food tax in Phoenix, said residents want services such as library hours restored to the level they were before the economic downturn. (Cronkite News Service Photo by ?