re: New state law requires all ticketed events to be taxed- including athletics

I know this is polyboard stuff, but I haven't seen anyone address the real problem. La spends more per capita than all the other Southern Southern states in its general proximity. We spend more per person than Florida and Tx. For a State with 4 million people, which has been fairly consistent our budget is over $20 Billion dollars. However, we are consistently the worst or 2nd to worst in all governement run categories.

The structure of our constitution which has been amended over 100 times since 1972 basically doesn't allow for cuts in anything other than higher education and DHH. Also, every dollar has a constituency, so there were no real cuts to the dedicated areas of the budget to offset the shortfall.

Edwards and F. King coming out with the doom and gloom and banruptcy, loss of football, etc is all smoke and mirrors get the average LA voter to not be so upset with raising taxes, but it is amazing that everytime the revenue committee meets the deficit changes and the number is more or less depending on if they didn't get the taxes they wanted.

We need to cut overall and go through every dapartment, starting with zero based budgeting and a Constitutional Convention. The real problem is Edwards and Alario cannot be trusted to do what is best to move LA in the right direction. No one addresses the fact that the legislature has had the same people in it for 40 years. A legislature who Edwards was a part of and Alario has been there since the 1st Edwards.

This State; even with the oil bust has never had a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. How is it that TX and Fl don't have income taxes and if you look at where LA was prior to Edwin Edwards, we had the largest port, fortune 500 companies, oil & gas, and NOLA was bigger than Houston and Atlanta. and probably only smaller than Miami in Fla. 40 years later where are we?

Now we have the largest sales taxes in the country, a majority of our citizens pay no income taxes and the money they pay in consumption is from Federal and State dollars. Edwards has not cut salaries, and has stuck us with the medicaid expansion timebomb.

For those who believe the taxes are going away; how is that possible if we are projecting deficits far past two years. Once Govenrment gets something it almost never goes away, because that money get projected out. Once the structure to collect all this new revenue is in place it will be accounted for; then you will be wanting to know why people will be losing their jobs when it goes away in two years. That will not happen, not with this guy. Next time he will say instead of losing LSU football, we will be potentially killing babies or something.