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  • No need for LA students to stop taking LEAP

    No need for LA students to stop taking LEAP

    (May 23)  A state senator’s bill on Louisiana’s statewide student tests is well-intentioned but ill-advised. At best, it’s superfluous, and at worst, directly counterproductive. Senate Bill 246, by Mark Abraham, […]

     
  • Why Louisiana should cut its sales tax

    Why Louisiana should cut its sales tax

    (April 13 print edition)  In Louisiana, sales taxes are way too high. They need to come down. By most measures, Louisianans pay the highest sales taxes (state and local combined) in […]

     
  • Plan to exempt NIL earnings from taxes is so, so wrong

    Plan to exempt NIL earnings from taxes is so, so wrong

    (Editorial by the Times-Picayune/Advocate, March 18)   Perhaps the best response to a new tax-exemptionhttps://www.google.com/search?q=you+cannot+be+serious&oq=you+cannot+be+serious&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyCggAEAAY4wIYgAQyBwgBEC4YgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyBwgDEAAYgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEAAYgAQyBwgGEAAYgAQyBwgHEAAYgAQyBwgIEAAYgAQyBwgJEAAYgATSAQkzMzI5ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBaAGxZlSyYX68QWgBsWZUsmF-g&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:340d0893,vid:t0hK1wyrrAU,st:0 idea in the Louisiana legislature is to quote a famous on-court explosion by tennis great John […]

     
  • The abject stupidity of Trump’s tariffs

    U.S. President Donald Trump at the 101st American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Annual Convention and Trade Show on Jan 19, 2020, in Austin, TX. Other government officials include USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.).

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    (Official Advocate/Times-Picayune editorial, March 9)  President Donald Trump’s tariff wars are a terrible idea anyway, but Louisiana’s congressional delegation should be particularly opposed to them and eager to reassert congressional […]

     
  • LA’s new scholarship program is wise

    LA's new scholarship program is wise

    (March 6)  A boffo early response to the LA GATOR education program is a reminder that the biggest advantage of school choice programs is, yes, the ability to choose. Choice is […]

     
 
 
 

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