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applegrove

(118,015 posts)
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 07:59 PM Mar 2016

Bobby Jindal’s Anti-Tax Fervor May Have Destroyed Louisiana

Bobby Jindal’s Anti-Tax Fervor May Have Destroyed Louisiana

by Alan Pyke at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/07/3757416/jindal-louisiana-budget-crisis/

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Louisiana’s new leaders made headlines last month for mentioning that a budget crisis may jeopardize the elite Louisiana State University football program. But the flood of red ink that former Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) left behind is so all-consuming that Louisiana may soon cease to function as a state in far more fundamental ways.

The basic services a government provides — watchdogs to guard abused and abandoned children, emergency rooms and hospitals, scholarships and safety-net stipends to lift families out of poverty — will barely be able to keep the lights on unless politicians can find $3 billion in new revenue in the coming days.

Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) called the legislature into a special session to resolve the $940 million shortfall for the current fiscal year and projected $2 billion gap in the next. But that session is scheduled to close at 6:00 Wednesday evening.

If lawmakers can’t resolve the crisis, many Louisiana state agencies will see budget cuts of 60 percent — “Doomsday,” as the state’s head of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Marketa Garner Walters put it to the Washington Post — atop years of significant resource cuts already imposed under Jindal.

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Bobby Jindal’s Anti-Tax Fervor May Have Destroyed Louisiana (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2016 OP
How odd Nancy Reagan is celebrated when her and her husband's claim to fame Jackie Wilson Said Mar 2016 #1
next red state to go belly up Loki Mar 2016 #2
Mission accomplished. cloudbase Mar 2016 #3
Yep - 'cuz Jeebus n' Gunz n' Freedumb hatrack Mar 2016 #14
First Kansas, now Louisiana, the list of failed states grows. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #4
Yup. Don't know why dem candidates don't make a bigger point about wiggs Mar 2016 #16
Not, imo 'may have,' elleng Mar 2016 #5
Neo-liberalism facilitates the looting of state assets malaise Mar 2016 #6
Kansas is not doing quite so badly hfojvt Mar 2016 #9
You sure like that word "neo-liberlism" don't you malaise? Loki Mar 2016 #20
Dems were complicit forjusticethunders Mar 2016 #21
No we are not. Loki Mar 2016 #24
Careful we handle hurricanes much better than Bush malaise Mar 2016 #25
I think the Neo-liberal is a different person than the old liberal I grew up with LiberalArkie Mar 2016 #27
I think Illinois needs to be added to that list. GoCubsGo Mar 2016 #29
Mike Madigan is more to blame for the problems here than anyone else. Ace Rothstein Mar 2016 #31
Nope. Rauner. GoCubsGo Mar 2016 #32
The problems have been building for decades. Ace Rothstein Mar 2016 #33
Typical. A democrat struggling to clean up a republican's disaster. tabasco Mar 2016 #7
When will the American people WAKE UP?? Hayduke Bomgarte Mar 2016 #10
I'll be here all week. n/t tabasco Mar 2016 #12
Because in most cases maxrandb Mar 2016 #17
I think the legislature comes in for a big share of the blame hfojvt Mar 2016 #8
But why didn't the wealth just ..... "Trickle Down?" NT aaaaaa5a Mar 2016 #11
I say give the voters what they voted for. Sam_Fields Mar 2016 #13
As long as they have their guns, yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2016 #15
No they won't maxrandb Mar 2016 #18
+1000000000000 atreides1 Mar 2016 #28
Rachel did a segment on that last week. Vinca Mar 2016 #19
he had the nerve to run for President lame54 Mar 2016 #23
It's almost like they're instituting.....death panels! NickB79 Mar 2016 #30
A Libertarian Utopia lame54 Mar 2016 #22
Thank God I live in Texas....more jobs than there are people. nt clarice Mar 2016 #26

Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)
1. How odd Nancy Reagan is celebrated when her and her husband's claim to fame
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:03 PM
Mar 2016

quote about fearing the government now proves out to have done so much harm to so very many.

Turning people into government hating zombies sure worked out well, didn't it.

Celebrate her for loving her husband, which she clearly did, but please stop rewriting history about everything else.

cloudbase

(5,486 posts)
3. Mission accomplished.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:07 PM
Mar 2016

They've often said they wanted to drown government, and it looks as though they've done it.

I've got $100 that says Louisiana will go for the republican nominee in the general election.

wiggs

(7,788 posts)
16. Yup. Don't know why dem candidates don't make a bigger point about
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 11:32 PM
Mar 2016

republican led failures like Kansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin (education, employment), Michigan.

In the Flint debates, both candidates were extremely careful not to state the political obvious about water disaster. It's been that way since 2004...missed opportunities to make the easy case against gop governing.

malaise

(267,808 posts)
6. Neo-liberalism facilitates the looting of state assets
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:12 PM
Mar 2016

while states are impoverished and their citizens robbed of services guaranteed for paying taxes.
Louisiana, Kansas, Michigan - look closely

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
9. Kansas is not doing quite so badly
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:23 PM
Mar 2016

thanks to some increases in the regressive sales tax.

Yet, the Democrat running in my legislative district, actually I don't think any of them mentioned the tax increases.

Loki

(3,825 posts)
20. You sure like that word "neo-liberlism" don't you malaise?
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 11:57 AM
Mar 2016

It's morphed so badly into the prevailing conservative ideology on trickle down economics, but you wouldn't know it. Just like to slam the word "liberal". I know where it came from, but it's like calling today's Republicans Democrats in the south. Maybe they were once before the civil rights act, then they migrated faster than stink on shit to the Repuke party of today. We have lots and lots of economists to thank for this assault on the the middle class, but I don't believe that Democrats are to blame like you want to. Those states services were robbed by Republican Governors and Republican legislatures. Look closer.

 

forjusticethunders

(1,151 posts)
21. Dems were complicit
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 01:33 PM
Mar 2016

Either in not directly calling it out, or tacitly supporting it. It takes social media and independent journalism or natural disasters like Katrina for attention to be drawn to the fact that Republican governance turns entire American states into Third World countries. A principled leftist political party, even a center-leftist one, has to at least point it out and run against that shit over and over and over again.

There are literally hundreds of Flint, MI's in this country and we're just now finding this shit out.

Loki

(3,825 posts)
24. No we are not.
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:04 PM
Mar 2016

This has been lurking in the background for years, but since Reagan did away with the Fairness Doctrine, the US populace has been fed lie after lie after lie and no one would call them on it. Not the journalists, or what is left of them. Do you remember what Dan Rather had to deal with, or anyone who would write about Dubya, one journalist in particular was found "suicided" in his motel room. We have tried to compete against this blast horn of disinformation for years, but with a dumbed down society, which we are all responsible for. For everyone who has ever had a child in school who went and complained about the amount of homework they had to do, or the school coaches who passed their athletes because they needed a winning team, and I could go on and on. No this one lies directly at everyones feet. So nobody gets a pass on this one. We tried, but we weren't paying attention to what was going on in the background. Republican Governors, and Republican state legislatures were redistricting the hell out of their states, yea that little jewel. We don't have representative government and we haven't for a long time. Try to get term limits passed, try to get redistricting done by independent boards, try to get money out of politics, the list is so long it's laughable. We have to have people in the states that are willing to start these movements, down in the trenches. so far, no one has been able to do that. Until that happens things will never change. You can talk revolution all you want, but it needs to start at the bottom, not the top.

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
27. I think the Neo-liberal is a different person than the old liberal I grew up with
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 02:41 PM
Mar 2016

The old style liberal thought that tax income should not hurt the least able to pay the tax. Instead (in Arkansas) starting with Bill Clinton and continuing through all the Republican and Democratic governorships, they have lower the income and corporate taxes and used sales taxes and state fees to get the revenue. Those taxes and fees only hurt one segment of the population and allow the net-liberal Democrats and Republicans to both claim that they held down taxes (on the wealthy) and did not raise property taxes (which is what funds the schools in Arkansas). So the Tysons, and Waltons, and Stephens and others are not inconvenienced too much.

There is a difference between the new liberals and the old liberals, and the new Republicans and the old Republicans. Give me a Nelson Rockefeller over a new liberal any day.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
29. I think Illinois needs to be added to that list.
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 03:34 PM
Mar 2016

What a shitshow. At least they still have a Democratic-controlled state legislature that's attempting to thwart that kind of shit. But, the state is being devastated to a point where at least one university may shut down, and another is also headed that route.

Ace Rothstein

(3,108 posts)
33. The problems have been building for decades.
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 11:07 PM
Mar 2016

Rauner is an asshat but he is much less responsible than many others.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
7. Typical. A democrat struggling to clean up a republican's disaster.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:13 PM
Mar 2016

When will the American people WAKE UP??

maxrandb

(15,188 posts)
17. Because in most cases
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:12 AM
Mar 2016

they don't blame the one who caused the problem, they blame the person who is cleaning it up, and the "liberal" media aids and abets them.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
8. I think the legislature comes in for a big share of the blame
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 08:21 PM
Mar 2016

After all, they passed those measures in the first place, and here they are, refusing to bite the bullet and undo them.

Sam_Fields

(305 posts)
13. I say give the voters what they voted for.
Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:07 PM
Mar 2016

When all government services and ER's fade away they will see what the Republicans mean by smaller government.

maxrandb

(15,188 posts)
18. No they won't
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:17 AM
Mar 2016

they'll still blame Democrats, liberals, those in poverty and the one's who have to clean up the mess.

There's no other way to explain it. We have seen, in every piece of economic data that you can find for the past 40 years, that the Republican economic policies DO NOT WORK FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, and yet...they now control 75% of the States and are poised to claim all three branches at the Federal level.

Waiting for the American people to wake-up is not a strategic plan.

Vinca

(50,170 posts)
19. Rachel did a segment on that last week.
Tue Mar 8, 2016, 08:50 AM
Mar 2016

Apparently, things are so desperate they might have to cut off dialysis for end-stage patients. Can you imagine? Closing hospitals, closing universities . . . all because of Bobby Jindal. And Jindal has the nerve to lecture Democrats.

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