re: Does JBE win re-election?

Not looking good for JBE according to latest poll.

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That surplus is largely due to the change in federal tax laws and how it impacts state income tax

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The chicken or the egg.

May of 2018 they raised sales taxes .45 cents. If they did not, we would still have a surplus. If Trump's tax cut wouldn't have happened, we'd have an even bigger surplus.

Edwards was asked during a debate if he'd roll back taxes, he said no. He wants to keep it for the state.

With Edwards the state comes first. That's the problem. He doesn't put people first.

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So you realize it was an over-the-top threat, and find it sad, but you make your peace with it because he needed to do what he needed to do?

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That and threatening 37,000 old folks, and thousands of parents who had students in our universities who were on TOPS.

No I am not conservative by ur definition of conservative.

No he was explaining the reality of how higher ed works. tenured faculty at LSU do not teach less than 4000 level almost universally , some may teach a few 3000 level classes. Tenured faculty are not going to be cut as that would result in LSU Losing SACs and status as R1.

So who was getting cut, it would be the temporary adjuncts and instructors who are not contractually bound to LSU and are paid per class and per semester. Those folks teach the 1000 to 3000 level courses and they would have all been let go, which means not only what JBe said about spring grades but also Intersession and summer school would not be offered and those classes are also taught largely by temporary instructors and adjuncts along with graduate assistants.

So what he was saying was in fact correct and reflects how LSU runs its classes and who teaches what.

And I need to check but I think the 4.45 rate was passed for 7 years and then it rolls off.

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I think we have been through this, the temporary taxes expired and the .45 percent increase was added. la had been doing this temporary tax deal since the 80s.

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The state sales tax was never over four cents until Edwards push through a temporary penny . That made it five cents. When that expired he made it 4.45 cents.

It expires in seven years 2025.

No governor ever made state sales tax that high.

And what hurts the little guy even more, mayors like the one in BR saw an opportunity to levy a local sales tax of .5 cents to fill the void left by the Edwards tax expiring.

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Per links above.The NOLA article IN" Most New taxes, tax credit adjustments and fees raised over $700 million signed by Jindal.

The Louisiana Opportunity Report that I linked signed done by a bipartisan commision, including PRofessor James Richardson, Chair of the Public Policy Institute at the LSU School of Business, Jay Dardenne, Republican former LT Governor, Sean Reilly CEO for Lamar, from the Business community, etc states on page 29 tax changes in 2015 brought in $ estimated $750 Million (Jindal) and the increase in the 1 cent sales tax signed by JBE brought in an estimated $1.5 billion for 2017 and 2018, which equates to $750 million year.

So, Jindal in 2015 and JBE in 2016 both signed temporary tax bills to fund the government to the tune of an additional $750 million a year.