Deal brokered: Louisiana House advances sales tax bill; here are next steps

[Honeycombe8]

1. This was bad news. It shifted tax burden from wealthy corporations to middle & working classes....

who have lower than avg wages, to begin with.

The debt is the result of the 80% tax cuts given to corporations and the wealthy during the Jindal administration. NO discussions were held among the politicians on rolling any of that back, which would FIX the problem. INSTEAD, they elected to ADD taxes to the average person.

The lower a person's income, the more a sales tax impacts them. And in Louisiana, unlike in many states, GROCERIES and prescription medications are taxes. So a working class person can't even elect to avoid the added cost by not buying something. The politicians made it impossible, when they chose to tax necessities.