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Lanny Keller: Vic Stelly fixed it once, sees return of 'temporary' taxes, financial instability

Source: theadvocate.com - Jul 26, 2017

There they go again. If not in so many words, that was the gist of a conversation with Vic Stelly, the legislator from Moss Bluff near Lake Charles who is best-known for his tax reform plan that he pushed uphill in the Legislature and was ultimately adopted by the people in a 2002 vote.

Before the adoption of the Stelly Plan, legislators were regularly called upon to vote to renew “temporary” sales taxes — money that state government could not do without, but requiring a politically difficult two-thirds vote of both House and Senate. Governors of the day had to dicker and deal with lawmakers to get to the magic number, 70 in the House and 26 in the Senate, to balance the budget.

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