re: John Bel Edwards is a Democrat of a different shade

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Sales tax

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I said that

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Business taxes

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Which ones? Neither income nor franchise taxes were raised. If you are talking about the tax on business utilities, that's a sales tax.

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Tax online sales

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That's "sales taxes"

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Cigarettes

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You got me there. I don't smoke so I had forgotten that those were raised. Those seem to be getting raised all over the country by both republican and democrat governors

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Taxes on services

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Again, sales taxes.

So I had previously said he raised sales taxes, and I forgot about the cig one. My bad.

If I wasn’t taxed on a service but now I am, that’s way more than just saying sales tax went up.

The same thing applies to online sales. If I was paying nothing, but now I’m paying 9 plus per cent, that’s a big deal.

Furthermore there were a host of tic tac taxes, and rule changed and etc. that impacted businesses and individuals.

To say Edwards raise 1.2 Billion dollars all by sales tax increases is flat out wrong and that’s what you were trying to say or at least what I thought you were trying to say.

Reality is for two plus years Edwards fought for all kinds of tax increases, but was thwarted somewhat in the legislature. Don’t forget he first asked for a Billion dollar hike to replace the penny tax when it expired, but settled for 600 Million.

And we still appear to be showing an upcoming surplus.

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The same thing applies to online sales. If I was paying nothing, but now I’m paying 9 plus per cent, that’s a big deal.

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you should have always been paying taxes on items you purchased online. You are just bitching about not being able to cheat the system as easily.

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you should have always been paying taxes on items you purchased online. You are just bitching about not being able to cheat the system as easily.

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True, but it’s a factor, and a definite increase in taxes.

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no it isn't. the fiscal note would 0 because the taxes were always due, always owed. The only difference is the state has teeth to collect them. It wasn't an increase for me because I always report my use taxes.

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Most people will tell you they paid more taxes. What can I say? The state took more money for folks than they were taking previously.

I don’t hold this against Edwards, Jindal should have been collecting this all along. However, it is a tax increase just as the Trump tax cut was a tax increase for the state. Again, I don’t hold Edwards responsible for that either.

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*people that were Democrats before 2006*

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JBE is one last hurrah and reunion tour for dixiecrats, especially those looking to wet their beaks.

After JBE leaves office, they'll have to go back to keeping up pretenses and gasp, actually support republican candidates because they don't want to lose access to the totem of power.

However, it will be our responsibility to make sure those candidates are legit conservatives and not RINO Alario types.

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Catholic school teachers get paid less than public school teachers and their scores are fine.

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No. Most private schools don't take the state exams at all. They don't have to, even if they take state money. So, there aren't any "scores" that are comparable at all.

Private schools have the advantage of total control over whom they let in and whom they kick out. It makes a huge difference.

Private schools certainly have their own issues that public schools don't have to deal with, but they can't all be painted with the "better than public schools" brush.