How about trying some of John Kennedy's suggestions first? Or at least including his suggestions for cutting wasteful government spending in the overall plan? The guy has been tossing around some of the most fiscally responsible ideas in the state for a decade and the elected never listen to him.
How can you not blame the state of affairs in Louisiana on the dude who has run this fucking place into the ground. Edwards has been Gov for a week and you already wanna crucify the dude and lay the woes of this state at his feet. That's typical republican shit. Blame the guy who hasn't even started yet. That's like Palin blaming Obama for her son beating up his girlfriend.
John Kennedy spoke in ridiculous generalities like most people do. "Hey, let's cut waste, and do away with bad spending." I'm not saying the guy's wrong, and those things need to be done, but you can't close a budget gap with vague statements like that. Nothing he offered was a real quantifiable solution to our budget crisis.
Actually, I was mistaken. Monroe will be the highest sales tax in the country at damn near 11%. http://www.sale-tax.com/Louisiana
I don't understand what you're asking. And yes, people who aren't betrothed to a single group's ideology can agree with both sides at times. As far as the sales tax increase versus income tax or even a property tax increase, I'm torn. It's good for me as I'm more of a saver than a spender, but I don't know if it's the best solution for the state.
If it's the only one, what else is he supposed to do? Literally no one has stepped up and said, this is how we do this without raising taxes. Nothing concrete anyway. He has to do something as we will be in crisis mode again in June. There is no choice. Vitter would have raised taxes. I was almost looking forward to him winning just to see how he would spin his tax increases.
