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 $940 and let that sink in for a moment.
This won’t be a small, unnoticeable tax hike. It’ll be the kind of tax hike that casts a very large shadow over the finances of everybody who voted Edwards into office and those who didn’t.
How is he going to get something like this passed in a GOP-controlled state legislature, you might be wondering. Well, for starters, he issued a warning that should his tax package be rejected, “you can say goodbye” to the LSU Tigers, which is Louisiana’s biggest college football team.
He followed that “threat” by saying that campuses could run out of money and be forced to shut down. Not that that would actually happen, but is closing down a college a bigger deal than closing down the state economy?
Read what GOP treasurer, John Kennedy had to say on the next page.
The Tigers make more money than industry in Louisiana. You shut them down and your Obama loving$#%&!@*better find you a hole to hide in asswipe
Funny. Probably one of the few things that brings in money is the football team.
Well governor listen tonthe public or you will not have a job anymore
Government in the Republic from top to bottom has degenerated into demands,threats,and blackmail.Thug government.
You people voted him in office so deal with it..
Another IDIOT Obama democrat.
I think anywhere you see democrats in charge of the money there is going to be more things being lost or stolen it’s the democratic way
If those in charge ( the ones spending ) cut THIER wages they could fix that !
Is that a fckn UN flag?
To all you idiots that voted him in , there ya go fucking you and everyone else