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.
Ct has same idiots Malloy increased taxes so much he drove ge headquarters out of ct in the last budget and tax increase!!
good bye, just like Calif, NY, Detroit…..
We might just say goodbye to the government and do away with the whole mafia system.
TYPICAL !
Typical democrat
Louisiana, another state with there hands out. Refuse this governor. Aren’t you conservatives tires of these leeches?
Pretty simple …your doomed without tax dollars. .on any level..
Goodbye to our government . . .
And people said you don’t need to run this country like a business. The government continues to dip their filthy hands in your pockets and doesn’t provide. Now I hope people will vote for Trump to bring this country back, otherwise, you deserve what you get by keep voting your Dumocrats and socialist.
Cut welfare and government spending