Tax & Budget
Guest Commentary: Cutting Tax Breaks Means Higher Prices
Don Briggs weighs in on the debate at the federal level. His view: burdening suppliers will do anything [...]
Read moreCommentary: Police Pension Funds Blown on Bad Investments, Taxpayers Stuck With Bill
MPERS gambled with public money, and lost. If this were a private company, these disastrous mistakes [...]
Read moreDespite Rising Pension Liabilities, Lawmakers Still Seek to Expand Benefits
Even with the accumulation of unfunded pension liabilities - now $30 billion and counting -- some state [...]
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Guest Commentary: Economic Logic Backs Sale of State Benefits Office
Jeffrey Sadow projects that "right-sizing" this area would save the state an annual $60 million and not [...]
Read moreRed Light Camera Revenue has Increased 419 percent since 2008
New Orleans Annual Operating Budget indicates that the city government has increased its reliance on [...]
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Commentary: Crescent City Connection Dysfunction Needs Legislative Action
The drastic mismanagement and squandering of resources highlights the need to greatly scale back the [...]
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Guest Commentary: Jindal Critics Dishonest with Use of Tax Rhetoric
Jeffrey Sadow contends that Jindal has received unjustified and misleading criticism over his pledge [...]
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Times-Picayune Letter to the Editor: Louisiana is Already Squeezing Taxpayers Enough
Edward Ashworth and Andrew Muhl argue in favor of increasing the state's cigarette tax, and the authors [...]
Read moreGuest Commentary: Addiction Taxes Exploit the Vulnerable
The reality is government wants more revenue, and taxes on tobacco prey on the vulnerable and burden the [...]
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