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re: Was Huey P Long or Edwin Edwards a bigger figure in Louisiana history?
Posted on 11/21/20 at 11:17 pm to The Boat
Posted on 11/21/20 at 11:17 pm to The Boat
Long actually did a lot that improved the state. Built bridges, roads, etc. He even improved the quality of education.
Edwards told everyone all the tax money gambling would generate would go straight to education in order to get people to approve gambling.
I don't have a problem with the gambling part, but Edwards was the type of politician who thought he could do whatever he wanted because he was a likable person. He benefited by the "good ole boy" system. People supported him because of what he could do for them, not what was best for the state..
Edwards told everyone all the tax money gambling would generate would go straight to education in order to get people to approve gambling.
I don't have a problem with the gambling part, but Edwards was the type of politician who thought he could do whatever he wanted because he was a likable person. He benefited by the "good ole boy" system. People supported him because of what he could do for them, not what was best for the state..
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Posted on 11/21/20 at 11:37 pm to OweO
quote:Apparently not for you.
He even improved the quality of education.
Posted on 11/22/20 at 6:24 am to OweO
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Long actually did a lot that improved the state. Built bridges, roads, etc. He even improved the quality of education.
Huey Long was a disaster for Louisiana. He made corruption de rigueur. This is why Louisiana is almost an island of stagnation in a sea of American economic expansion.
Posted on 11/22/20 at 10:59 am to OweO
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Long actually did a lot that improved the state. Built bridges, roads, etc. He even improved the quality of education.
What state did not do this?
Huey was a tyrant.
He published his own newspaper and forced the state patrol to circulate it all over the state. He paved roads until they reached the land of someone that didn't vote for him and then he would skip that stretch of road. He leased state land mineral rights forever in his Win or Lose Corporation and then leased them to oil companies---the successors of that corporation still enrich his heirs. He had the "deduct box" and forced state employees to contribute cash to it. He wanted to tax at 100% all income above $100,000.
He was horrible. We should take his statue from the Capitol grounds TODAY and remove his remains TODAY.
No one should admire Huey---JBE does and really is envious of the power the man had.
EWE ran the white collar oil business out of the state with his change to oil taxes. He let trial lawyers run rampant and really destroyed private workers comp in the state. He is very smart and would certainly be open to changing things if he was in power today but the man was out for his friends and ultimately himself. If one could, for example, convince EWE that we should end the state income tax he would figure out a way to do it. He knew where every cent in the state budget was. He just had wrong ideas about government.
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