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 $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
You get what you vote in .
And a lot of money to local businesses
So are the citizens of the state that pay those taxes going to let spoiled millennial brats who just want free$#%&!@*and football players who could possibly make more in one year playing pro football than any typical tax paying resident might make in their lifetime get away with it? If it was Gov Abbott threatening to shut down the famed University of Texas or Texas A&M because citizens can’t pay that kind of increase, I’d tell him to go ahead and shut them down. Or here’s a novel idea…raise the tuition not tax people who are already taxed to death.
Your tired dumb$#%&!@*
Hahaha!!! They know how to make Cajuns panic! Most states / politicians threaten with social security, welfare, healthcare, etc… But take LSU football away from Louisiana and we FREAK OUT!!! Give this nut job whatever he wants!!!! Ahhhhh!!! Don’t take away the Tigers!!! Hahahahahahha, this guy is a joke
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That sounds like blackmail to me.
Yea and you suck a squirels nuts bitch
How about good by to you.
Fnk leb…..fire his ass