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 $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
Pass this package or else??$#%&!@*you hitch boy take your tax hike papers and shove them up your$#%&!@*flaming
100% parental leave supporting a stay at home parent for two – three years… I’m sure there is something that THE funded parent can do to participate in while being funded
And he will end up dead by the hands of the people..that’s how that works!
Taxes haven’t gotten us no place besides further into debit abolish taxes… The mark up at the grocery store or gas station is plenty of extra tax
Same party same results see if you end up like Detroit in a few years
keep electing these frigging commie democrats,look around the country where democrats run things look like 3rd world cities,in other words vote the damn communist democRATS out or lose your country and get used to living in a place like Oama’s homeland Kenya
Hang him from Satan Nuts
There was another GOV. EDWARDS in Louisianna a long time ago who needed to be in the penitentiary and I guess guy must be a relative
Goodbbye fishhead
Everyone was means in Louisiana should leave. The only way to deal with democratic governments use to strip them of their revenue source. When they run out of other people’s money and there’s nobody else to tap they will sink in their own$#%&!@*