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BATON ROUGE — Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday proposed closing a $750 million budget shortfall with cuts to the TOPS free college tuition program, safety net hospitals for the poor, colleges, and public schools.
The Democratic governor personal
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I assume they eliminated the stupid tax holiday that allows the purchase of atv’s in sept.
without paying any sales tax.
Imagine the health and economic impact if Louisiana legislators simply raised the cigarette tax (of the least healthy state in the nation) to the national average ($1.61). They could have spared higher education and TOPS. Instead, the tiny 22-cent increase gives Louisiana the 33rd highest (or lowest) tax on a pack of smokes in the country (up from #36). Annual costs associated with cigarette smoke in the state are in the $BILLIONS. Here’s some food for thought for the next special session: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/food-thought-related-louisianas-budget-crisis-proposed-jim-pittman?trk=prof-post
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