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 $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
Correct me if I am wrong but I assume that most of y’all are not from Louisiana let me put it very bluntly it was a Republican governor for eight years that created this financial crisis in Louisiana but I will agree with you the democrat governor now is not doing anything to solve the problem there are hundreds of millions of dollars in Baton Rouge that the legislature doles out to their buddies. The current Democratic governor was a member of the legislature that went along with the Republican governor in all of this wasteful spending. All of them should be run up on malfeasance charges
This is what you get when you elect a Democrat.
You need to read the post that I put up this morning
So say good by to football. Big fucking deal.
yeah ok asshole
Calling on all Cajuns to kick his$#%&!@*
Now that’s taxation with representation hang that son of a b****
I told you SOB’S not to vote for him, now his true colors are coming out
Screw football. You need a new job.
Sports…The shiny bauble to distract us while “They” steal our Money & Country.