I guess “free sh**” isn’t free ultimately. HaHa.
This move was done two hours before Governor John Bel Edwards (D) is scheduled to address the state on the budget deficit and launch his efforts to raise taxes in an upcoming special session to plug the $800 million deficit this fiscal year.
This is how the governor will try to get the people of Louisiana and Legislature to go along with the plans to raise taxes...by instituting the harshest means to cut the budget possible. Suspending current state scholarship money to students in school right now is one of the harshest ways to cut the budget.
For Edwards and his supporters, it’s either raise taxes or end student aid and slash higher education to the point where universities close.
Keep an eye on Ct and UCONN...
Boo hoo hoo;s coming from that sector recently.
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Things happen when a state goes democrat. No sympathy for Louisiana at this point.
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I heard Edwards’ speech and Kennedy’s GOP response. You can’t trust a Governor who uses adjectives like “catastrophic” and “devastating” to describe the proposed cuts, euphemistically calls for “reducing tax credits” (i.e., raise the income tax), and even appeals to the fears of college-football fans whose oh-so-favorite teams will be no more if things don’t go his way. At least Kennedy stood his ground and pretty much dismissed Edwards’ proposals as unnecessary.
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