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.
Another $#%&!@*ass out of control. Here’s a solution. Stop spending!!!
He is so OUT!
too bad but elections do have consequences you will now go the way of most other democratically controlled entities
you get what you voted for===========
Remember oboma said elections have consequences. If you voted for him or oboma reap what you sow.
Learn then speak!?!? Most likely one of those genius pot heads from Colorado, without big companies who the hell works and pays taxes? They get tax breaks for hiring thousands of people it’s really easy to understand if you just put down your crack pipe or joint!!
Must be democrat?
Cut the governor’s salary and the overspending of the states offices and then vote the mayor and the governor out of office. Why is always taxes the way out ?! Never works.
Patricia Fletcher your a fool
Other dumocrats. And ignorant people who believed he “wuz for de people”! People who wanted something for nothing.