You can add the Council for a Better Louisiana to the groups hailing the tax reform package. CABL President Barry Erwin says the lowering of personal and corporate income taxes and the elimination of the franchise tax will make Louisiana a better place to live and to do business.
Erwin says the state’s new corporate income tax would put Louisiana in the middle of the pack of Southern states for that tax.
The special session also resulted in legislators paying down about two-billion dollars in debt to the teachers’ retirement system and using those savings to fund a permanent two-thousand dollar pay raise for teachers. Prairieville Representative Tony Bacala…
Cut 27 (10) “….making it permanent”
Triple-A projects a record 71-million people will travel by car over the Thanksgiving holiday, a two percent increase over last year. Triple-A spokesperson Don Redman says gas prices are about ten-cents cheaper than a year ago…
Cut 9 (06) “…a gallon”
The statewide average for a gallon of regular gasoline is $2.71.
Thanksgiving air travel is also expected to set a record as Triple-A projects nearly six million people will fly domestically this holiday. The Transportation Safety Administration says its doing what it can to get travelers to their gate as fast as possible and that includes what is called CAT-2 technology. Sari Koshetz with TSA says with CAT-2 technology, there will be no need to show the ticket agent a boarding pass…
Cut 14 (09) “…flying that day”