look everything will be all right because all the folks in Louisiana have to do is call the sales tax a “tariff” and some furriners like them Chinese will have pay it
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Doesn't lowering income and corp tax and raising sales tax transfer the burden from the top to the bottom earners? Is that what voters want in LA?
nov 24, 2024, 12:23 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes. Because the majority of the state is uneducated and lacks critical thinking skills. They’ve attached this bill to a rise in teachers pay bill so people will blindly vote yes for it.
nov 24, 2024, 4:37 pm • 4 1 • view
Weee
nov 25, 2024, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
👍👍🏾👍🏼👍🏿👍🏽👍🏻
nov 24, 2024, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisiana folks are still having dreams of the tRump wall for which Mexico was paying.
nov 24, 2024, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
And this is why the red states remain in poverty and rank the lowest in education. Keep them ignorant.
nov 24, 2024, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The expert in the article says it best…“I think it will ensure that low- and moderate-income families continue to pay a higher effective tax rate in Louisiana than those at the very top.” And yet those same low and moderate income voters voted for the incoming President. I am straight baffled!
nov 24, 2024, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
but mah eggs are so expensive! If we don't give corporations taxs cuts how will the eggs be affordable?
nov 24, 2024, 12:04 pm • 18 0 • view
And so it begins………
nov 24, 2024, 12:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Consumption Tax, a Reich Wing dream come true to move every last dime into the hands of the richest. Amazes me the poorest voted to give the richest all their money.
nov 24, 2024, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Good. The MAGA electorate in LA deserves it
nov 24, 2024, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I never saw a table that list basic items along with current and expected cost with tariffs
nov 24, 2024, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Landry and his cronies are all about austerity for everyone but themselves.
nov 24, 2024, 9:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Your money my choice
nov 24, 2024, 12:38 pm • 14 2 • view
Hahah so the poor and middle class will pay for the wealthys tax cut with increased sales tax. People vote against their interests, amazing.
nov 24, 2024, 12:12 pm • 16 1 • view
We need to ditch child labor laws Parents must quit crying they don’t have money There’s plenty of work in oilfields, paint factories, & slaughterhouses, or they can chop cane We need tax cuts, tariffs,& we raise the debt limit to $80t Green grass & high tides forever Fuck the Nanny State
nov 24, 2024, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
And the rich keep buying all if their toys in other countries or other states. They won't pay the new LA sales tax.
nov 24, 2024, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
There must be a report in some archive that analyzes the impact of sales taxes on different socioeconomic levels of our society, yes? Lowering income tax on the wealthy and paying for it by increasing the cost of every item at Walmart seems like an overallocation of the burden to the poor.
nov 24, 2024, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah, just like the yard signs of seen in my hometown in PA. tRump/low taxes - safety. Harris/ high taxes - open boarder. Something doesn't seem quite right? 🤔
nov 24, 2024, 12:15 pm • 4 0 • view
You are incorrectly substituting a hillbilly accent for a cajun one. It's "dem chinese will have to pay for it'
nov 24, 2024, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Right... and now low income people that paid little or no income tax will be paying more money in sales tax they didn't have to pay before
nov 24, 2024, 1:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Nothing says “pound the middle class and the working classes into the ground” like bills like this. It’s maddening how uninformed voters are when they elect folks that do stuff like this.
nov 24, 2024, 12:15 pm • 7 0 • view
Another reason not to live in Louisiana. Thanks!
nov 24, 2024, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Another "Trickle Down" Econimics myth ... If we reduce the burden on businesses they will increase wages and hire more people. Truth: Companies use the money to buy back stock and pay for additional bonuses for themselves. And in this case, consumer costs will go up... A lose-lose.
nov 24, 2024, 12:28 pm • 9 1 • view
Wait till the taste Elon's foretold AUSTERITY, that dog will bite
nov 24, 2024, 5:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel sorry for the people in those states whose "leaders" keep them in perennial ignorance and poverty
nov 24, 2024, 12:24 pm • 7 1 • view
I just don’t understand why people live in states that their govt representatives don’t give a shit about them.
nov 24, 2024, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m just not built for cold weather. Real answer - my career is LA specific. 😩
nov 24, 2024, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This is where we see how clueless the GOP voters really are. #FAFO
nov 24, 2024, 12:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Hook line and sinker!
nov 24, 2024, 2:38 pm • 0 0 • view
What's the Mel Brooks line from History of the Word Part I? Oh yeah I remember. It's "Fuck the poor!"
nov 24, 2024, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisiana- not satisfied unless they can be most regressive.
nov 24, 2024, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Unbelievable
nov 24, 2024, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not economist, but isn't this a regressive tax? Seems like it's going to hit the poorest the hardest.
nov 24, 2024, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Voters are to stupid to understand, can't figure out what a lie is and end up paying for it.
nov 24, 2024, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Ha, Ha, Ha🔥
nov 24, 2024, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Sucks but that's what they voted for....
nov 24, 2024, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Making the tax structure more regressive.
nov 24, 2024, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
So they got a tax break and get to pay more in taxes. Are they really this ignorant of how taxes work? 🍊 snake oil salesmen!
nov 24, 2024, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
See! Trump was right ! Duh. “Don’t know how and why i can afford my PBRs and Skoal anymore !”
nov 24, 2024, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The Governor was complaining about people moving out, that trend is going to continue. Blue states getting richer and red states getting poorer.
nov 24, 2024, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
That is because Louisiana wants blue states to pay for their bills.
nov 25, 2024, 12:50 am • 0 1 • view
WSJ's hot take: "In rural Louisiana, voters are upset at Biden over continued increase in the cost of eggs."
nov 24, 2024, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously, this is the biggest FUCK YOU to the citizens of Louisiana and if they accept this, then the GOP will fuck them further. I would NOT ACCEPT THIS and it's time to make it difficult for them to run that state. It's only fair that the GOP taste what obstruction feels like.
nov 25, 2024, 7:48 am • 0 0 • view
That will work out about as well as legalized gambling did for providing us with the best roads and educational system.
nov 24, 2024, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Say what now?
nov 24, 2024, 1:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Soon you’ll be paying Canada taxes. But you won’t have our healthcare… sorry.
nov 24, 2024, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Saying that cutting taxes on the wealthy creates jobs is one of the top five biggest lies out there. Supply side nonsense
nov 25, 2024, 1:39 am • 1 0 • view
All those retirees who don’t pay income tax now get to carry the tax burden. Guess who they vote for? Lol
nov 25, 2024, 12:40 am • 1 1 • view
Well done, Louisiana's economically uneducated legislature. Regressive taxation and wealth redistribution all wrapped up together. Louisiana's poor and middle class will suffer further, but hey, at least the 10 commandments will be posted on the public school walls.
nov 24, 2024, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
You get what you vote for.
nov 24, 2024, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
What else could we expect from a state that's top of the list in the US for lousy education?
nov 24, 2024, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Bumfuckery at its finest.
nov 24, 2024, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s what happens when brothers and sisters have babies common sense is washed out in the mix.
nov 24, 2024, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Texas will follow.
nov 24, 2024, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course sales taxes are a form of flat tax that affects the poor disproportionately. This is an example of anti-Robin Hood redistribution: steal from the poor to give to the rich.
nov 24, 2024, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
hybrid.focus.de/politik/ausl... Former Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine: "I believe that the Third World War has begun. Valery Saluzhny said at an event organized by the media outlet "Ukrainska Pravda": "I believe that in 2024 we can safely assume that the Third World War has begun." He justifies…
nov 24, 2024, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
…this by saying that Ukraine is not only fighting against Russia, but also against North Korean soldiers and Iranian drones. "Ukraine is no longer dealing only with Russia," said Saluzhny. "We are also facing North Korean soldiers. Let's be honest: Iranian-made Shaheds, or kamikaze drones, are…
nov 24, 2024, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
…openly killing civilians in Ukraine." In addition, the ambassador stressed, North Korean missiles and Chinese artillery shells are also being used in Ukraine.
nov 24, 2024, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
🤣
nov 24, 2024, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Reliably Red. 3rd highest in poverty, 6th lowest in literacy. Deserved
nov 24, 2024, 7:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Well they just moved up from 46th to 40th in Edumacation..All the Smartest people with Bigly IQ's are from there. Mental Midgets
nov 24, 2024, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I think that our governor is trying to get a leg up in the race to become the next Trump.
nov 25, 2024, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
Louisiana ranks 40th out of 50 states rating in education. What do you expect?
nov 24, 2024, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
“Critics warned the tax reforms would primarily benefit corporate shareholders and wealthy taxpayers” Gee, this sounds familiar. Where have I heard this before?
nov 24, 2024, 2:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn't Louisiana already get most of its funding for government programs from the Federal Government? DOGE may hit them hard
nov 24, 2024, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Regressive. Like Louisiana.
nov 24, 2024, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait. I thought furriners were that group wearing animal getups that were fun to party with in the Sheraton hotel bar in Novi, MI.
nov 24, 2024, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
They’ll blame Biden.
nov 24, 2024, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
They voted for these people. They deserve the benefit of their bargain.
nov 24, 2024, 12:25 pm • 5 0 • view
We didn’t all vote for them.
nov 24, 2024, 4:37 pm • 3 0 • view
And that’s the sad part.
nov 24, 2024, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, I’d move if I could.
nov 24, 2024, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
I think that so many demographic groups who voted for him on the basis of the things he promised are slowly realizing they have been had. Imagine the shock of the Arab American community in Dearborn who he persuaded would bring them peace. Gaza will be leveled before it’s over.
nov 24, 2024, 4:43 pm • 3 0 • view
There is no depth to their policy, only surface level headlines. Their ideas are as thoughtful as a blank greeting card.
nov 24, 2024, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Let them eat cake! Man, how did we get here?
nov 24, 2024, 12:05 pm • 5 0 • view
“their purpose was to make the state’s tax code more business friendly, create jobs and reverse trends of outward migration from the state” “Come to Louisiana! Where your high sales taxes can support our tax cuts for corporations!!”
nov 24, 2024, 1:16 pm • 3 0 • view
They redirected $280 million from infrastructure (roads and bridges are not important) to offset the cuts, and increased sales tax from 4% to 5%…and the people cheered.
nov 24, 2024, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
They fly everywhere so the peasants can deal with the dirt tracks
nov 24, 2024, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Ruh-roh, I know of a new family in New Orleans who aren't going to like this. Unless they DO like this, Tim @thebulwark.bsky.social ?
nov 24, 2024, 8:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Switcheroo!
nov 24, 2024, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
F. N idiots MAGA RULES! We are screwed
nov 24, 2024, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
State legislatures with legislators aren’t making communities better the communities in each state needs to come together
nov 24, 2024, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
They r getting what they voted 4
nov 24, 2024, 4:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I grew up as a kid in Baton Rouge in the late 1970s. I visited the state capital. It was the tallest building at the time and it still is. Huey Long built that building as a tribute to himself. Long was the closest thing in the US to a right wing populist with power: until now, not once, but twice.!
nov 25, 2024, 2:23 am • 0 0 • view
So the price of eggs……
nov 24, 2024, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
How are people falling for this stuff???
nov 24, 2024, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Makes perfect sense!
nov 24, 2024, 12:03 pm • 1 0 • view
"REGRESSIVE" is such an elitist word.
nov 24, 2024, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
When can the blue states stop funding these horrible red states?
nov 24, 2024, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
There are no tax cuts unless spending goes down. There are only burden shifts.
nov 24, 2024, 12:11 pm • 9 1 • view
You forgot- and convince the people it’s for their own good.
nov 24, 2024, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Passing the cost of the government on to the poor and middle class folks. Why the hell do people still vote for Republicans?
nov 24, 2024, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe we should just switch gears and go the VAT route
nov 24, 2024, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
And, when you give the rosiest projection to what all the tax cuts and sales tax increases do, it leaves a 500m gap in the budget. But, they get to brag that they owned the libs, so yeah..... freedumb.
nov 24, 2024, 12:04 pm • 12 0 • view
People in LA are the stupidest
nov 24, 2024, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
nice! when i'm rich, i'll pay less taxes and have 'the poors' feel the pain
nov 25, 2024, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Buyer's remorse in three, two, one...
nov 24, 2024, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Loseriana
nov 24, 2024, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s all about the packaging.
nov 24, 2024, 12:04 pm • 10 0 • view
Nothing could be more true. They know their audience.
nov 24, 2024, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Meanwhile Louisiana ranks 40 on education. Keep the poor ignorant and paying for Christmas toys. Give the rich the ROI expected from their investment in Trumps regime.
nov 24, 2024, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
I believe the lawmakers are not thinking about people buying stuff outside the state, paying lower taxes on purchases. They may see lower coffers to keep their economy on track. Some people thrive on short term gains, 😂
nov 24, 2024, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
And of course the bill will pass because they attached it to the teachers pay bill. People will see that and vote ‘yes’ without doing any research!!
nov 24, 2024, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
The actual plan is to shift high-earner income taxes to the little people. That’s the plan.
nov 24, 2024, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Republican states for some time have been routinely doing stuff like this, but they ordinarily separate them by a longish period of time, and getting away with it. I have been convinced for some time the tariff thing is a similar scam from the Republicans
nov 24, 2024, 12:03 pm • 13 0 • view
This should finally lift Louisiana from a poverty-filled backwater into... Mississippi. Watch out Alabama, they're gonna pass you up next!
nov 24, 2024, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Seems to be some serious competition out there in the South for The Dumbest State title. Ivey and Sanders better watch out!
nov 24, 2024, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Buy out of state as much as possible 😏
nov 24, 2024, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
They really are stupid.
nov 24, 2024, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
That thar is sum smart thinkers to think that up. Right smart fellers.
nov 24, 2024, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
“Sales tax is a choice” = lolz
nov 24, 2024, 12:05 pm • 5 0 • view
I giggled at that statement. However, I am certain the good folks in Louisiana are just so happy to have a larger paycheck to take home. 🤦♀️
nov 24, 2024, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
You just say no to the tax?
nov 24, 2024, 12:10 pm • 5 0 • view
youtu.be/-V9LBZmYnYs?...
nov 24, 2024, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
The Rubes always fall for the 3 card monte flim-flam
nov 24, 2024, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Glad more are understanding this although too late. One difference though which make tariffs even worse than a Federal sales tax. Tariffs trigger foreign retaliation which then dampen exports creating additional economic damage. Ben Stein explains it to perfection in the Bueller Bueller scene.
nov 25, 2024, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds extremely regressive. But that’s Louisiana for you. Probably won’t be long other bottom of the barrel states like MS, AL, and AR follow suit.
nov 24, 2024, 12:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Arkansas' race to the bottom is doing well, Sarah Huckabee will see to it. Living in a declining red state run by the 'D' students is a real treat.
nov 24, 2024, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
I thought Mexico was paying for it. Oh… wait… China pays the tariffs- Mexico pays for the wall. Got it.
nov 24, 2024, 12:02 pm • 24 0 • view
Regressive taxation
nov 24, 2024, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Inflation on the rise in Louisiana! Will now cost everyone more money when shopping! This is what they voted in so I certainly don't want to hear any of them complain!
nov 24, 2024, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
And all the wonderful immigrants staffing these places are going to be deported 🥲🥲 … so wages will increase due to worker shortages I am assuming???
nov 24, 2024, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
And the next hurricane or tornado, they will be begging the rest of the United Statescto bail them out. The corporations aren't.
nov 24, 2024, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re getting what they want, tax cuts…just not for them. The next 2 years are going to hell. Hoping the chuckleheads see the light sooner rather than later
nov 24, 2024, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Seems regressive
nov 24, 2024, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
This was always about implementing a consumption tax and lowering or eliminating personal income tax.
nov 24, 2024, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisiana should be kicked out of the USA and we put DC in its place bc DC is full of True patriots that went to college and aren’t dumb MAGAts
nov 24, 2024, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
This whole, 10 year long, Trump fiasco is one giant money grab for the rich. This is one small part of that. Shifting wealth even faster from the bottom up. Welcome to the Feifdom of America.
nov 24, 2024, 12:31 pm • 20 4 • view
This will be the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of mankind.
nov 24, 2024, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Mark: Agree! Your post here and the posts in your feed earned you a follow from me.
nov 25, 2024, 7:06 am • 1 0 • view
So that means all the poor folks just got an increase in their inflation rate. Maybe they'll start to blame it on Trump's economy. Because that's where it's headed.
nov 25, 2024, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
Louisiana doesn’t tax food does it? I know Washington and Michigan don’t (I’m sure other states too) but it is a Trumper haven down there.
nov 24, 2024, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Aren't we always told how Republicans are the party of workers?
nov 24, 2024, 9:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The MAGAt genius is getting stupid people to believe them so they can fuck them first.
nov 24, 2024, 12:03 pm • 9 0 • view
Americans are such easy marks
nov 24, 2024, 3:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Louisiana is so uneducated. So Republican. So corrupt. So banal. So beholden to the petrochemical industry. Just so very awful.
nov 24, 2024, 12:14 pm • 8 0 • view
Totally agree! If I was built for cold weather, I would have left by now.
nov 24, 2024, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
And yet, they will find some way to blame the Democrats.
nov 24, 2024, 12:12 pm • 9 0 • view
She argued consumption-based taxes were fairer: “Sales tax is a choice,” Emerson said. I guess that means, if you want to pay less sales tax, skip a few meals.
nov 24, 2024, 1:38 pm • 3 0 • view
So let’s get this straight. If you don’t make enough to pay income tax, lot of Trump voters fall into that category, you still pay more in sales taxes. You get none of the benefits, but royally screwed because you pay the taxes for the rich and corporations.
nov 24, 2024, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Life in Louisiana about to get a lot harder on the working poor.
nov 24, 2024, 12:09 pm • 20 0 • view
George, what if the Democrats tried running on a platform of zero taxes for working people and an increase on corporations and the wealthy? Stop focusing on identity issues by name and say they want everyone to have freedom. If the Right can elect insanity anything is possible.
nov 24, 2024, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Need to change the lexicon. Socialism is a bad word even though it is in place for the elite. Rebrand Socialism to "Rich Dad Economy" Isn't that what socialism for the rich is like? Having a rich dad who can come in and bail you out. Trump had a rich dad. Leon had a rich dad.
nov 24, 2024, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
If people want it, they can have the US Government act like their rich daddy. If there were no poor people wouldn't there be more money in the economy? Wouldn't there be fewer issues with society? People turn to bad things when life sucks. Money makes life easier. The US is rich enough to do it.
nov 24, 2024, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
“Louisiana just became a much more attractive place to do business,” Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Susan Bourgeois said. Excepting the obvious: the majority of professionals in this country wouldn’t ever move to Louisiana.
nov 24, 2024, 3:53 pm • 0 0 • view