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 $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
Why do people vote for these DEMONCRATS?
I dont suppose the 98 million dollar defecit he came into has anything to do with it. Alomg with the already 2 billion dollar defecit projected for the next fiscal year.
FK you and your TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX , It;s your President that ran the Deficit up too 19,000,000,000,000, Trillion Dollars$#%&!@* and you $%^&* Supported him the the whole time!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.usdebtclock.org/
Savva Constantinou
I the people united we could just stop paying taxes. Wonder how they would like that.
Learn. Then speak
Maybe this$#%&!@*should take a pay cut along with hundreds of other over paid government trash.
Good bye Louisiana. Should’ve stayed constitutional.
Same problem here in Pennsylvania.
LOL. Voted for a democrat. Got democrat results.