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SADOW: Voters School Caddo Commission For Its Arrogance
When the Caddo Parish Commission decided to ask voters to lengthen term limits from three to five, it gambled with extension of the property tax for debt on capital improvements on the same ballot. Last Staurday, it lost in the... (Continue reading)
SADOW: Caddo Voters Ought To Reject The Tax Measures On The Ballot Saturday
Saturday, Caddo Parish officials are wanting voters to approve both parish-wide measures on the ballot. The public needs to resist the blandishment. One is a renewal for 20 years of a 1.75 mill property tax used for capital items. Even... (Continue reading)
SADOW: Louisiana’s Constitution Trumps A Little Inconvenience Here And There
The federal government’s effort to paint stripes on the same-sex pair horse and calling it a marriage zebra in Louisiana produces both a challenge to the rule of law and emotionally hyperactive invective bereft of intellect. In recent months, courtesy... (Continue reading)
WAGUESPACK: Fall’s Promise
I love this time of year. As summer winds down and the kids head back to school with new shoes, haircuts and attitudes, the air is filled with promises of great grades, perfect classroom behavior, and meticulous attention to nightly... (Continue reading)
SADOW: Same-Sex Marriage Pretty Much Requires Legalized Discrimination
The false narrative propagated by supporters of same-sex marriage came crashing down yesterday as a couple of administrative rulings made clear that the relevant policy question is not about spreading “fairness,” but in fact is about special privileging that tears... (Continue reading)
Meet John F. Kennedy, Conservative Republican
Have you ever heard President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech to the Economic Club of New York? Listen to some of it below. And then ask yourself whether there would be any place in today’s Democrat Party for this man.... (Continue reading)
Channel 2 In Baton Rouge On The CATS Tax Repeal Effort
Woody Jenkins and the Taxbusters folks are out in front of the effort to repeal that $18 million boondoggle. Metro Councilman Buddy Amoroso says the tax can’t be repealed unless the CATS board votes to repeal it. And five votes... (Continue reading)
SADOW: We Need A Better Effort At Tax Reform Next Year
It’s correct to say both that taxpayer expenses paid to research and publicize Gov. Bobby Jindal’s unsuccessful tax reform plan of earlier this year were a victim of the state’s populist streak in its political culture and provided value as... (Continue reading)
JUNEAU: Property Tax Reform Moving Backward Not Forward
After Kathleen Blanco was elected governor in 2003, I had a meeting with her before her inauguration. One of the items I mentioned to her was the necessity to appoint a conscientious Louisiana Tax Commission (LTC), one that would insure... (Continue reading)
The Bobby Jindal-Juban Crossing Kerfuffle
The Livingston Parish courthouse gang, and their favorite senator Dale Erdey, are up in arms about Gov. Bobby Jindal’s veto of Erdey’s bill to create a taxing district to fund land improvements to support a shoppping mall. The mall in... (Continue reading)
BUCKELS: The Tax Code Needs Amputation, Not Aspirin
For anyone who is even slightly informed about current events, the exposure of the real abuses of the IRS should be a call for drastic and immediate action. The government establishment crowd will say, “take an aspirin a call me... (Continue reading)
JUNEAU: The Session Might Be Over, But The Problems Sure Aren’t
Perhaps the kindest thing that can be said about the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature is that it didn’t result in the need for a follow-up Special Session. After confrontation, consternation, confusion, and odd-couple coalitions festered for 60 days,... (Continue reading)
BRIGGS: Oil And Gas Thinks This Year’s Session Was Just Fine
The 2013 Louisiana State legislative session has now adjourned for the year. Each year leading up to session, typically one conversation dominates the press. This year, the topic of discussion was regarding the Governor’s tax plan that was set to... (Continue reading)
The State GOP Takes Landrieu To Task For IRS Union Donations
From a press release put out this morning by the Louisiana Republican Party, a challenge Mary Landrieu won’t find very convenient… As the controversy over the IRS continues to swell in Washington, the Republican Party of Louisiana is challenging Senator... (Continue reading)
Remember How Apple’s CEO Got Dragged Into Senate Hearings?
The point of Tim Cook’s appearance earlier this month, by appearances, was to discuss how Apple is parking money offshore and dodging taxes. Remember that? It was such a spectacle that Rand Paul uncorked this beauty… Well, the true point... (Continue reading)
VIDEO: The Fantastic Rand Paul Apple Rant
This happened at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing this morning, at which the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, was being dragged forth to testify about all the nefarious practices that company was engaged in as a... (Continue reading)
SADOW: The Independence Bowl’s New Sponsor Could Be…Us
It no longer may be called the Independence Bowl, but Shreveport’s AdvoCare V100 Bowl keeps on defying expectations with its continued existence despite a host of disadvantages. And now, apparently, there’s an attempt afoot to allow local government-allied agencies dip... (Continue reading)
DORE: House Passes Tax-Increase Lite On Budget Day
Last week, we learned that a group of Republican state representatives who call themselves “Fiscal Hawks” were planning to team up with the House Democratic Caucus to cut a deal and design a budget plan filled with $1.3 billion in tax... (Continue reading)
BEAM: House Changes State Political Scene
The state House of Representatives made legislative history last week by writing a budget to its liking. It was a rare streak of legislative independence, and that is what the nitpicking, perennial critics have overlooked. Since the days of Huey... (Continue reading)
SADOW: The Fiscal Hawks Know That Tax Amnesty Money Is One-Time Money, Right?
Q: What do “fiscal hawks” do when they want to spend scarlet “one-time money” on general fund operating expenses? A: They call it “amnesty.” And there’s the rabbit pulled from the hat by the “hawks,” a group almost entirely composed... (Continue reading)
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Quote of the day
Quote Of The Day, December 6, 2013
”This, I feel, is one of the greatest tragedies of Communism. Read Lenin as he says ‘Lying, deceit and violence are justifiable means to bring about a classless society.’ This is where the principle of nonviolence breaks with Communism and any other method which holds to the same belief. . . . So, in the long run, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends, because the ends are pre-existent in the means.”- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.