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Our Views: Don't let Louisiana legislators dodge personal responsibility for fiscal crisis
Source:
theadvocate.com
- Jul 12, 2017
In all the reviews of the 2017 Legislature, the consensus is that the lawmakers failed to do the one thing they need to do: address the "fiscal cliff."
That is the expiration of temporary sales taxes and other revenue increases that enabled new Gov. John Bel Edwards to patch together a budget in his first year in office. Many of the new taxes, particularly an onerous new one-penny on the sales tax, expire on June 30, 2018.
Not enough of a cliff, apparently, as next to nothing was done on tax reform, and even less on credible spending reforms. Both should be part of a solution, but the GOP-led House thinks only of cutting medical services for the poor in the giant Medicaid program. Well, that and opposing taxes.
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