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The problem with taxing business services
The Council on State Taxation (COST) just released a study, “What’s Wrong with Taxing Business Services? Adverse Effects from Existing and Proposed Sales Taxation of Business Investment and Service...
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Guns save lives
We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches num...
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Session to host controversial agenda - Budget, tax plan will be joined by other issues
By: John Maginnis and Jeremy Alford LaPolitics.com BATON ROUGE — The regular session that convenes Monday will have no shortage of high-profile issues, beginning with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s ambitious...
Apr 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Higher business taxes are not the answer
Quite a few eyebrows raised in the business community recently when Governor Jindal’s Executive Counsel, Tim Barfield, responded to a question about winners and losers under the governor’s tax swap...
Apr 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Can it happen here?
The decision of the government in Cyprus to simply take money out of people’s bank accounts there sent shock waves around the world. People far removed from that small island nation had to wonder: ...
Mar 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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LA rice industry deserves better
These are unsettling times in the rice industry and for rice farmers in our state and across the nation. We are facing a farm bill that will eliminate direct payments next year and make our bottom...
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Manufacturers have a growth agenda for the nation
In an ongoing effort to show policy makers the importance of manufacturing to the nation, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) recently released A Growth Agenda: Four Goals for a Manufac...
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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How to put epoxy into the wheels of commerce
Folks who are working hard to expand our stagnant economy in the face of government-imposed headwinds had to be upset if they read the March 14, article in Bloomberg Business Week entitled “Obama W...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Things that caught my eye this week
Add $239 million more to the budget hole: If things weren’t bleak enough for the state’s fiscal outlook, more bad news came this week in the form of a $239 million federal court judgment against Lo...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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I got busted by my four year old
There they were... just an arms length away. Hot, salty, and calling my name. French fries. The only problem: I actually got them in the Big Kid’s Meal for my son. I couldn’t possibly allow my sens...
Mar 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Forestry forum
The LSU AgCenter will host the Central Louisiana Forestry Forum on March 12 at the evacuation center near the LSU at Alexandria campus. It will begin at 8 a.m. with registration and includes a lunc...
Mar 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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March madness
Unless the unlikely happens, on March 1, the much cussed and discussed federal sequester will automatically trigger, cutting some $1.2 trillion over 10 years across the board in both defense and di...
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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