The state Department of Revenue Services guidance on the list of items considered prepared meals, which will be subject to a new higher sales tax, has a number of lawmakers speaking out.  Brookfield Representative Steve Harding says the previous 2-percent proposed grocery tax got well-deserved pushback, and was abandoned.  He cited comments from Governor Lamont during a February business gathering in Southbury that the idea was “one of the options discarded very early on.”