[StBernard] Tax Foundation: "Governor Jindal's Bold New Tax Plan"

[Westley Annis]

Sometimes when it seems too good to be true, it is:

http://louisianavoice.com/2013/01/16/par-lsu-economist-richardson-cast-doubt
s-on-%CF%80-yush-plan-to-replace-louisiana-income-tax-with-state-sales-tax-i
ncrease/


>Almost simultaneously, LSU E.J. Ourso School of Business economist Jim

Richardson, in an interview with Baton Rouge >public radio station WRKF,
warned that if the state income tax is replaced by a state sales tax
increase, exemptions for >items like food and prescription drugs would also
have to be eliminated to offset the income tax revenue loss.




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	Dear Friends -
	
	As Governor Jindal continues to work on a tax reform proposal that
will
	eliminate all personal and corporate income taxes and make
Louisiana's
	burdensome and complicated tax code simpler, fairer and flatter -
economic
	experts from around the country are weighing in.
	
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