Louisiana Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne
Appearing before the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday, June 27, 2016, Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy authoritatively slammed a recent statement by Gov. John Bel Edwards’ Commissioner of Administration, Jay Dardenne, and others that hospitals “must” treat any patient who shows up at an emergency room. Kennedy described such statements as “simply not accurate.”:
Treasurer John Kennedy comments on whether he feels a recent investigative report by Fox 8’s Lee Zurik
validates his repeated statements entailing Louisiana emergency
room abuses and also responds to statements by Louisiana Commissioner of
Administration Jay Dardenne (and others) that emergency rooms “must”
treat anyone showing up at an emergency room.
Highlights of Kennedy’s BRPC Address of 6/27/16, including
some intriguing one-on-one Q&As after his main presentation.
CLICK HERE to see Treasurer Kennedy’s actual BRPC presentation (without any post-presentation
one-on-one Q&As) in its entirety.
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Not only do these massive increases in the retirement system’s UAL inhibit retirees who worked for the state for a small fraction of Dardenne’s golden-parachute-salary from obtaining pension COLAs, but Dardenne and other similar fat-cat state pensioners have the added advantage of being able to exempt their entire six-figure pensions from Louisiana state income taxes.
At the meeting of the Baton Rouge Press Club of Monday, June 13, 2016, State Rep. Julie Stokes (R-Kenner) was asked to comment on the fairness of such exemptions and why, during this extended period of tax hikes on everyday Louisiana citizens, this massive exclusion seems to never even surface for serious consideration. Let’s watch her response:
Stokes comments on the lucrative state pension exemption.
Most recently, Stokes introduced another iteration of her efforts to remove deductibility of Federal income taxes from one’s state tax return (in exchange, at least temporarily, for reduced tax rates). Stokes’ own analysis of the impact of her proposal, which she was gracious enough to provide at Press Club, demonstrates a seismic shift of tax burdens away from folk making less than $50,000 per year and toward folk in the $100,000 – $180,000 income range. Sound Off Louisiana’s Robert Burns therefore asked Stokes if there had been any factor for “leakage” (i.e. people moving to Texas) as a result of ever-increasing tax burdens on those adversely impacted by her proposal. Her response follows:
Stokes addresses any “leakage” factor (i.e. residents moving to Texas)
that may arise as a result of her proposed Constitutional Amendment
to eliminate the deductibility of Federal income taxes.
Stokes also bluntly stated that the penny sales tax will serve as a “bridge” to other tax-increase measures and nothing more. Let’s hear her response to Burns’ question entailing fiscal conservatives who expected a bridge to meaningful spending reforms such as those advocated by State Treasurer (and U. S. Senate candidate) John Kennedy.
Stokes explains the purpose of the penny sales tax in terms of the
type of “bridge” is serves as.
Stokes responds to a question of “what two or three exemptions do
you feel are most critical to eliminate?”
Stokes describes relationships in the Louisiana Legislature and provides
her advice to Gov. Edwards in terms of a third special session.
CLICK HERE to see Rep. Stokes’ presentation to the Baton Rouge Press Club in its entirety.
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Soon after Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards appointed Rev. Freddie Lee Phillips to the Louisiana Auctioneer Licensing Board (LALB) on April 20, 2016, an action which Gov. Edwards rescinded on May 5, 2016, Sound Off Louisiana received what we believed to be highly-credible reports that Gov. Edwards was prepared to make wholesale replacements to clean up the years of corruption entailing that board. Our sources were wrong! In the following video (along with the support links below it), Sound Off Louisiana’s founder, Robert Burns, explains just how fast Gov. Edwards was to cave to the “good ‘ole boy” network of auctioneers and continue the corruption train on the LALB initially established by his predecessor, Gov. Bobby Jindal:
Burns explains exactly how JBE’s most-recent LALB
appointee, Jeff Henderson,
has been backed into suing his own father, Marvin Henderson, in Federal Court
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for alleged fraud perpetrated by Marvin Henderson.
CLICK HERE for the Mississippi sales tax JUDGMENT recorded against
Marvin Henderson. It was in anticipation of this type of filing that
likely prompted the formation of JAH with Jeff Henderson and Janet Cagley
(Marvin Henderson’s son and daughter, respectively) in the first place so
that a judgment would not attach to the company’s assets.
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