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From 2024: #Louisiana lawmakers pass income and #corporate #TaxCuts, raising statewide #SalesTax to pay for it

By JACK BROOK
Updated 8:55 PM EST, November 22, 2024

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — "Louisiana’s #GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase, giving Gov. Jeff Landry much of what he wanted after his original tax reform package faced mounting resistance from lawmakers and lobbyists.

"The final passage of the tax measures wrapped up a special legislative session launched Nov. 6 by the governor and his allies. They said their purpose was to make the state’s tax code more business friendly, create jobs and reverse trends of outward migration from the state. It was the third special legislative session called by Landry, a Republican, since he assumed office in January.

"Critics warned the tax reforms would primarily benefit corporate #shareholders and #wealthy taxpayers while the sales tax increase would exacerbate Louisiana’s regressive tax system where #poorer households pay a higher percentage of their income on taxes."

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https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-tax-reform-special-session-landry-95db6e608809dcdcfae5f5de8b0355d4

#KillThePoor #TaxBreaksForTheRich
#TaxTheRich #PayYourFairShare #LouisianaPol #USPol #CEOs #Corporations #Millionaires #Billionaires

Louisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for it

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase. The result is a mixed bag of success for Gov. Jeff Landry, whose original tax revision plans faced resistance from lawmakers and lobbyists amid hard fiscal realities. Lawmakers approved flattening the personal income tax rate to 3% and reducing the highest tier of the corporate income tax rate from 7.5% to a flat 5.5% rate. They also repealed the 0.275% corporate franchise tax, which had been considered a roadblock to economic growth by conservative lawmakers.

AP News

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈Jul 21, 2025

#politics #older #poorer and this is a #Labour government. I rather think not. #LINO ⬇️ https://mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y/114892027916362528

Steve Woods (@[email protected])

Britain is facing a ‘tsunami’ of pensioner poverty, says Kendall. Well, Liz, you know what to do. Tell Rachel to increase taxes on the very rich, then you can afford to pay us decent pensions. #RedTories https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/21/britain-is-facing-a-tsunami-of-pensioner-poverty-says-kendall

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Centre for Population Change Mar 27, 2025

WorldPop's Andy Tatem and Jessica Espey report on the growing global crisis in #population data in The Conversation. Please share across your networks 📨

"When people vanish from #data, they vanish from #policy. When certain groups are systematically undercounted – often #minorities, #rural communities or #poorer people – they become invisible to #policymakers. This translates directly into #political #underrepresentation and inadequate resource allocation."

https://theconversation.com/global-population-data-is-in-crisis-heres-why-that-matters-251751

Global population data is in crisis – here’s why that matters

When certain groups of people are systematically undercounted, they become invisible to policymakers.

The Conversation

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Mar 17, 2025

#OneHitWonder #Stars Who Were #Poorer Than You Realized

https://www.grunge.com/1808808/one-hit-wonder-stars-poorer-than-realized/

One-Hit Wonder Stars Who Were Poorer Than You Realized - Grunge

We don't expect one-hit wonders to be fabulously wealthy, but some either made way less money than you would think, or lost it all over the years.

Grunge

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DoomsdaysCW Mar 1, 2025

#ForcedSterilization of #DisabledPeople Isn’t a Relic of the Past

In a majority of states, #eugenics-era laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients against their will.

by Julia Métraux
February 27, 2025

"'In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,' Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v. Bell, the state could—and should—'prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.' Forced sterilization, the court held, was not only legal but laudable.

"In 1924, 17-year-old Carrie Buck was institutionalized, having been deemed 'feebleminded' on the grounds of 'promiscuous' behavior. In reality, Buck was raped by her foster family’s nephew. Three years later, with the Court’s blessing, Virginia’s 'State Colony of Epileptics and Feeble Minded' sterilized Buck against her will. The decision, passed at the height of the 20th-century eugenics movement, has never been overturned.

"'There’s a very different standard being applied to disabled people’s autonomy.'

"To this day, 31 states and #WashingtonDC, still have laws on the books that allow for the practice—and just two, #Alaska and #NorthCarolina, have laws that fully ban the #nonconsensual #sterilization of disabled people, according to a 2022 report from the National Women’s Law Center. There’s no official account of just how many disabled people have been sterilized under those laws.

"Some of these laws aren’t even that old. In 2019, #Iowa and #Nevada passed new forced sterilization laws that applied to people under #guardianship. Both bills passed unanimously, and the end result is consistent with laws on the books in other states. There was no discourse among politicians—let alone objections—about the ethics of sterilizing disabled people without their consent.

"Sterilization and Social Justice Lab co-director and founder Alexandra Minna Stern said that early IQ tests, which sought to measure intelligence in part on the basis of class- and culture-based questions involving Beethoven’s sonatas, the early United States, and college athletics, were 'used to categorize people who would then be targeted for sterilization,' generally those who were '#marginalized or maligned in some way': in #California and the #Southwest, often #MexicanAmericans; nationwide, #Black, #Indigenous and #poorer white Americans, particularly women. The people behind the tests, Stern says, were 'white, #elite men who wanted to create a certain type of society in their own image.'

"NWLC senior counsel for health equity and justice Ma’ayan Anafi, who is also disabled, told Mother Jones that “forced sterilization laws are a really powerful example of how violations of disabled people’s bodies and rights are baked into our legal system today.”

Forced sterilization of disabled people isn't a relic of the past

In most states, eugenics laws still let doctors sterilize disabled patients—even against their will.

Mother Jones

Linknation Feb 16, 2025

THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO CONCERNING THE #ECONOMY #jobs NO MATTER THE #GOV #inequality WILL KILL THE #ECONOMY:

#garyseconomics stop with the #red (#republican #rightwing) vs #blue (#democrats #liberals #leftwing) #bullshit: the real problem is #inequality and over decades no #government has significantly addressed or fixed this ever growing problem = #trump will #fail on the #economy, #starmer will #fail on the #economy because they do not want to touch the #rich #wealthy, #taxtherich or create a completely #newsystem that works for the 99%!!! (BEFORE the #RICH START ANOTHER #WORLDWAR!) state your #demands or you and your children will get #poor and #poor and #poorer and yes they might create #war to keep you fighting for #survival, so #teamup #organize #risupe and come up with new innovative way (have some ideas, can anyone #help?)

Linknation Feb 16, 2025

THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO CONCERNING THE #ECONOMY #jobs NO MATTER THE #GOV #inequality WILL KILL THE #ECONOMY:

#garyseconomics stop with the #red (#republican #rightwing) vs #blue (#democrats #liberals #leftwing) #bullshit: the real problem is #inequality and over decades no #government has significantly addressed or fixed this ever growing problem = #trump will #fail on the #economy, #starmer will #fail on the #economy because they do not want to touch the #rich #wealthy, #taxtherich or create a completely #newsystem that works for the 99%!!! (BEFORE the #RICH START ANOTHER #WORLDWAR!) state your #demands or you and your children will get #poor and #poor and #poorer and yes they might create #war to keep you fighting for #survival, so #teamup #organize #risupe and come up with new innovative way (have some ideas, can anyone #help?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnImxVWbvc (ok admitted it's taff to educate #notsobright #rightwingers)

Why Labour and Trump will both fail

YouTube

Linknation Feb 16, 2025

THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO CONCERNING THE #ECONOMY #jobs NO MATTER THE #GOV #inequality WILL KILL THE #ECONOMY:

#garyseconomics stop with the #red (#republican #rightwing) vs #blue (#democrats #liberals #leftwing) #bullshit: the real problem is #inequality and over decades no #government has significantly addressed or fixed this ever growing problem = #trump will #fail on the #economy, #starmer will #fail on the #economy because they do not want to touch the #rich #wealthy, #taxtherich or create a completely #newsystem that works for the 99%!!! (BEFORE the #RICH START ANOTHER #WORLDWAR!) state your #demands or you and your children will get #poor and #poor and #poorer and yes they might create #war to keep you fighting for #survival, so #teamup #organize #risupe and come up with new innovative way (have some ideas, can anyone #help?) (ok admitted it's taff to educate #notsobright #rightwingers)