If you were Governor of Louisiana, what policies would you enact?

Do what Texas is doing

Execute all trial lawyers

Cut taxes

Ban New Orleans from naming any future minor league baseball team the Babycakes.

Bring back firing squads.

Close/consolidate a few of our 13,000 universities.

Anyone over the age of 18 would be required to work at least 30 hours a week if the receive food stamps
No food stamps for people with illegal parents

I would do the following things if possible

1) end direct funding of local school districts and instead give families vouchers to attend whatever school they want---our government school systems are something the politburo of the old USSR would envy. One should not have to send one's children to a particular school dictated by a bureaucrat to get a state funded education as people in Louisiana have to do today. I believe such a funding mechanism would revolutionize education in Louisiana and we would see new schools arise to handle every need better than we handle those needs now.

2) I would implement loser pay in the legal system similar to what exists in the Commonwealth countries. Lawyers hate this but they shouldn't. If they have to spend $100K to get a $1000 judgement for their client they would get paid. By the same token one would have to post a bond to get to court to prove they could pay the expenses if they lose. The lawyers would have to buy the bonds so they would be very particular about the cases that end up in court. No juries in civil matters either--a Chancery Court with a panel of judges would hear them. This would result in much better results for Louisiana citizens as both plaintiffs and defendants would have plenty of incentive to get the matters settled.

3) I would spin off all the State run colleges and universities into private entities and give all that funding out to Louisiana citizens as vouchers and make the newly private entities compete. We have too many brick and mortar schools and we spend too much money. There is no political way to close schools so lets spin them off to private and let them fend for themselves. Schools like Purdue which now owns Kaplan are going to drive the cost of education down and brick and mortar schools are going to have to adapt quicker than a government university is capable of doing now.

4) I would build the Zachary Taylor parkway as a toll road from Vinton to Bogalusa crossing the river in St. Francisville. I would also put two north south connectors between the toll way and I-10 in Baton Rouge---on on each side of the river. These too would be tolls. I would also consider tolling I-10 to fund these expansions too. We need to move to toll based road construction and maintenance as autos are quickly moving to much more efficiency and to other fuels making fuel taxes obsolete.

5) I would end Homestead Exemptions and the Industrial 10 year tax exemption and hold collections still for one year so that millages would dramatically fall as the billions of dollars of property would come into the tax rolls.

6) I would end all income tax deductions, credits and exemptions and move to a flat 2% income tax on all Louisiana income. It would not surprise me at all that 2% without the deductions and exemptions would mean more money than 6 and 8% do now.

7) I would remove the body and statue of Huey Long from the Capitol grounds the very first day I was in office.

What else?

These things would make Louisiana unique in America and would make the state a much better place to live and to do business.

Well for one, I’d stop funding our government.

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5) I would end Homestead Exemptions

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You lost me here. It is like a friend of mine said. In Texas you never really truly own your home because of taxes on your home. You want to tax a home purchase fine. But the tax should be a one time thing. You shouldn't have to be paying taxes on your home.

create the most free market a state has ever seen. Open up all regulations and lower taxes to zero if possible. Raise the sales tax but eliminate income and make property taxes so minuscule one would barely notice them. Watch money flow into the state and tall buildings rise from the ground.
Give charter schools the most hurdle free path to existence.

Well we have the homestead exemption now set at $75000 but constantly the millages are going up as people want recreation districts, libraries, new schools ect. The burden of these these new capital outlays falls more and more on the property value above $75000. I would end the homestead exemption and tax all the property at much lower rates---millages. In a place like Ponchatoula the rates if all the property from homestead exemptions and industrial tax exemptions were on the rolls I suspect the rates would be 70-80% lower. There is probably more exempt total dollars of property than there is taxed property on the rolls of Ponchatoula.