To: Win Smith who wrote (239774 ) 12/12/2013 11:00:45 AM From: Alex MG Read Replies (1) | Respond to I dunno who's worse, yours or mine... Piyush "Bobby" JindalKevin Drum Via Ed Kilgore, I see that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal wants to raise taxes on the poor as a way of funding big tax cuts on the rich. He doesn't put it that way explicitly, of course ("It's time to...foster an environment where businesses want to invest and create good-paying jobs"), but it's hardly buried in the fine print, either. Basically, he wants to increase the sales tax (which hits the poor and middle class heavily) in order to eliminate income and corporate taxes (which are paid largely by the well-off).According to data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the poor in Louisiana currently pay about 10% of their income in state taxes. The rich pay about 5%.Rebecca Schoenkopf News comes that by the end of the month, Louisiana will “save” all of $3 million by discontinuing hospice care for its poor folk. (It will not “save” anything, as the people who currently get hospice care will just cycle into ERs and ICUs instead.) Because poor folks with cancer were livin’ too high on the hog with their peaceful, palliated deaths surrounded by love ones and really nice nurses. ThinkProgress ]In Addition To Taxing The Poor, Louisiana Will Stop Providing End-Of-Life Care To Low-Income Americans Sy Mukherjee on Jan 17, 2013 at 12:00 pmIt is time to halt the implementation of this creationist voucher program . It is increasingly clear that one of Governor Jindal’s primary education goals is the teaching of creationism. He supported, signed , and defended the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), Louisiana’s 2008 stealth creationism law, which allows teachers to sneak creationism into public school science classrooms by using creationist supplemental materials. Despite hearing from 78 Nobel laureate scientists who urged him to repeal the law because teaching creationism is both bad science and unconstitutional, Jindal instead defended the law.
