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.
Good bye tigers
He needs to check his books again. LSU football brings in the bulk of the money for the school.
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good article of page: Even as a hypothetical situation, that’s outta line…….
goodbye tigers. but everyone knows this to be b******t because college football is big business. another scumbag democrat.
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Udder…not utter.
Eric Graybill – pay your taxes already!!
Why is the deficit so high, wouldn’t be over spending by the governor would it?
Dim-o-cants and taxes go hand in hand
How did this idiot get voted into office?