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.
Huh?
DEMOCRATS LOVE TO TAKE AND SPEND YOUR HARD EARN MONEY WHAT A SHAME.
i have never seen a demoncrat that would run away from a new tax. Their leaders like any tax they can impose and their people always believe that tax will help them
NETWORK, EDUCATE YOUR COLLEGE AGE STUDENTS, WAKE PEOPLE UP TO VOTE THE C**P OUT OF OFFICE.
Politicians cannot balance their own checkbooks and we have to trust them not to over draw ours , but that never works !
Sounds like blackmail to me. Well we knew it was not going to be good if either one was elected.
It’s UDDER by the way. Really gives credibility to this story. Lol
Problem what is a fair share, a person is already taxed according to income. So why is it fair you pay 10 percent while someone that works and makes more pays 35 %. A person is suppose to pay more for working and having. What part of thou shalt not covet do you people not understand. I is not fair one is penalized more because they choose to work and have more.
So,Lousians, you slit your own throats again by electing a Democrat! You just don’t learn!
This is what happens when you elect a Socialist as your Governor, Have fun with that for the next 4 years.