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.
More taxes, it’s what democrats do best along with more spending
Take a good look at what the Democrats have done to New Jersey. Oh and don’t blame Christie for what the Democrats have done for years long before Chris Christie.
Should have voted conservative
Wait isn’t Bobby Jindal the governor of Louisiana?
Your typical tax and spend DemocRAT…
Hopefully they will be awaken to the reality of what socialist really do to destroy society.
Vote a Democrat into office and this is what you can expect!
And I live in CA, and see that damage done to bussinesses and personnel rights by liberals.
Well, I guess people in Louisana better move.
You get what you vote for.