Louisiana Governor Jindal's popularity slumps after bold tax plan

[RonPaulMall]

Consumption taxes are a lot easier to avoid.

He's not joining the stupid party by eliminating the state income tax. It's the best thing a state can do.

The problem is he's fallen in to the trap of trying to making it "revenue neutral". So for poor people that paid no income tax, it is a huge tax increase. For middle class it is probably a slight tax increase to maybe just a wash. And for the rich, it is a net win. In short, a pretty stupid plan for a party that is already tagged in the public mind as serving the interests of the rich. If you are going to spend all your political capital pushing a massive tax reform, shouldn't it at least be a reform that actually reduces taxes?

 

[gwax23]

since its a revenue neutral proposal its worthless. They should get rid of the state income tax but also get rid of large amounts of government spending in turn.

 

[Keith and stuff]

since its a revenue neutral proposal its worthless.

I'd say revenue neutral means it is bad for him and other elected Republicans. The people that stand to lose are usual more vocal than the folks that stand to gain. Plus, in this case, there are substantially more people that will lose than will gain.

I don't know the breakdown but maybe something like 4 out of 10 people this will hurt and 2 out of 10 people this will help. It will likely hurt business overall, at least for a few years, IMO. The oil companies and oil workers should do very well because of this, though.

 

[KrokHead]

That sucks, you try something new, something potentially extremely beneficial and everyone gets pissed at you for it. No wonder so many politicians are such status quo hacks who don't care about mortgaging the future. Somehow that pisses people off less.

 

[gwax23]

I'd say revenue neutral means it is bad for him and other elected Republicans. The people that stand to lose are usual more vocal than the folks that stand to gain. Plus, in this case, there are substantially more people that will lose than will gain.

I don't know the breakdown but maybe something like 4 out of 10 people this will hurt and 2 out of 10 people this will help. It will likely hurt business overall, at least for a few years, IMO. The oil companies and oil workers should do very well because of this, though.

Yea exactly because its not lowering the overall tax burden its just shifting it around to effect a different group a people more disproportionately.

Dont get me wrong though if he was actually just eliminating the state income tax with no other tax increases elsewhere followed by appropriate spending cuts than I would fully support him and so would everyone else but hes not doing that but he definitely wants to make it seem like he is for 2016.

Plus as you said earlier this is all multiplied by the fact that Louisiana already has very high sales tax.