What caused the income inequality gap that started in the 70's?

Then address the root issue... the Constitution. Cuts to higher ed and helath care will always be heavy until we fix the Constitution. There is no way around it.

The House Republicans, led by Joel Robideux killed DUMB in Ways and Means. As retaliation Donahue stripped all the language to Robideux's film bill and tacked DUMB onto it. He then tacked it on to two other previously passed House bills on the Senate floor. Not to be out done, Robideux tacked the stuff Donahue stripped out of his film bill onto some Senate bills on the House floor.

Lance Harris is the leader of the Republican Caucus, and he is extremely anti Jindal. Hell The House Rebublicans and the Black Caucus are co-sponsoring bills to kill or limit business incentives.

He can't compete with Vitter's money especially now that he won't be getting contributions from the film industry who were among his strongest supporters.

 

You realize Edith Bunker Blanco signed most of those incentive programs into law right? And Stelly was a terrible policy the state was taking in a billion dollars more than it needed.

Partially correct. Business incentives are bringing in tons of business and tens of thousands of jobs. The incentives were never designed to generate additional tax monies. They were designed to diversify the economy away from oil, gas, and chemical manufacturing. In that regard they have been wildly successful, but you can't give away 30 cents, collect 6 and come out ahead on the fiscal side. The time has come to scale all of them back,but killing them before reaching the appropriate critical mass is short sighted.

British Columbia subsidized its targeted industries for nearly 20 years before eliminating or reducing its programs, but ask the government there if the investment was worth it. They will answer yes. You can't make a video game anywhere else, and almost all CGI and VFX are done there.

I would never have voted for these laws had I been in the legislature as they are all terrible, but now that we have had them in place fr 10 to 15 years not seeing them through means we have wasted a couple of billion dollars.

That is why our current and last President widely considered to be in the top three worst presidents ever.

 

No, I would say we need to cut out some of the 14 billion in various tax exemptions (business incentives is about 5% of that number) before we raise taxes that heavily hit the poor and middle class.

Any evidence to back up that assertion. The legislative reports indicate the programs result in three things 1) increased economic activity, 2) job growth (Louisiana leads the region in year over year job growth), and 3) losses to the state treasury. Those three things indicate they are working as intended.

 

Me, all that plus I cook outside quite often and piss in the yard as much as possible.

 

Pardon me, but would you have any Grey Poupon?

 

But of course.