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 $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
your a freaking jerk…thank you informing me of this…I live in Arkansas and I’ll never visit your state again
Same here outside of Detroit Bob Reynolds. The demoncraps have done the damage for many years. Stabenow & Levin keep up the liberal hobama loving bs.
Liberals love to black mail. Just like this president. Fear mongering like usual. Sounds like Communist California.
Louisiana just voted this lunatic in . You did or to yourselves .
Cut contracts and your abuse!
Ok…GOODBYE. ..
2hat a fuckin loser of course the answer is tax tax tax instead cut fire fire fire and change the state government our country is fixing to really suck bad they tell the lie that we have the best country in the world yeah its because of our people not our fucking government
ok good bye
Intimadation?
Me too..i got the$#%&!@*out and moved to Dallas 5 years ago..i dont miss it at all