Louisiana’s newly elected Democratic Governor, John Bel Edwards, has proposed a package of tax increases to fix a $940 million budget deficit. Now, before you run off and grab a calculator to try and figure out what kind of numbers we’re talking about, consider the word “million” attached to the end of that $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
Somebody has to pay for the destruction GOP Governors do…
“My way or the highway”…. nah, Liberals aren’t fascists
Ask the folks that live in Detroit if that’s true. Lol
STUPID LOUISIANA……HAPPY NOW?
You back water fools get what you deserve…..At least you could have looked at NY or Michigan., two states dying because of the lousy communist democratic leaders.There is a saying in N.Y. BURN BABY BURN and you will
Downhill from here! Poor fools in LA.
We don’t have a problem with GOP governors here in Texas. In fact, since the old blue hag left office this state has flourished. Go figure.
Its the dumbass black folk that blindly vote Democrat not knowing anything about the candidate. And here in Louisiana there are a shitload of black people.
That’s what they get for electing another Edwards. Already sent 2 to prison. Louisiana politics is why I left louisiana. Unreal.
I live in Louisiana, all white people are Republican almost, the black vote is what kills us, and believe this, there are a lot of black folk down here