The poll suggested voters think he is spending more time traveling outside the state and burnishing his credentials for a possible White House run than tending to local matters. .................................................... But this was OK for OBAMA in his first term????
SNIP In speeches across the state, he has cast it as a way to simplify the system, make it fairer, and give people more control over their own money.
Wow, Jindal's a busy guy....he's losing popularity because he's spending too much time outside the State while he's traveling the State making speeches. Oh, and his plan to abolish State income taxes is making the poor nervous. Really?
Reuters?
That is not even an American news source.
Just saying. My support for him just went up by quite a lot.
:D
There are more people that vote for a living in Louisiana than people who work for a living. The parasites are concerned about their host's blood supply.
As their Democrat masters have instructed, the media has done a wonderful job of painting Jindal in the worst possible light.
Huh? Louisiana conservative?
Textbook play for 'manufactured consensus.'
Uh-oh. If Jindal is left only with the support of those who get up and go to work and pay income taxes, he’s in trouble. The parasites outnumber the hosts now. America is dead. The Democrats have won.
NO. Leave this part out. Does not support the “simplify” argument.
The only problem I have with his plan is the much higher cigarette tax. Cigarettes are already too expensive.
I think his plan is, at the same time, too bold and not bold enough.
While a good argument can be made for cutting out the state income tax entirely, it would be better to push for a bill that steps it down each year for a few years, say 33% each year for three years. So if it turns into a catastrophe, the legislature can reverse it (with a 2/3rds vote).
At the same time, sin taxes are pretty much defunct as an idea. They have a curve something like the Laffer curve, and taxes beyond that point just lead to crime.
What would be a *huge* boon to any state would be a partial elimination of *property* taxes, under some strict conditions.
It would apply to a single family residence that is fully owned, and the family could not lease that land to others, and had to be “full time” residents of the state, that is, 6 months plus 1 day out of the year (as is done in Alaska as a requirement for the oil revenue payout.)
Likewise, there would be no state *estate* tax on that land, meaning heirs would inherit the land and home without state tax, just having to pay federal estate tax.
Just having a similar law in Florida, that a person’s residence cannot be taken away from them, has been a giant boost to Florida real estate. Every rich person who could lose it all buys a house in Florida, and retire there even if they don’t lose it all.
But an inheritable real estate law would be just as interesting to people who don’t want their hard earned money taken from their children.
Finally, Jindal could make himself extremely popular in the state, at pretty low cost, by offering for the state to buy surplus crops produced there, that would go to the poor and institutionalized at a great discount from food stamps. Both the poor and the farmers would appreciate this.
why any ‘normal thinking’ person living in an income tax state
would not want to abolish that tax is beyond me — only those
that are gettin sumpin would oppose getting rid of it.
Sounds like a good idea, just cut the other taxes as well.