Today is the first full day of the special session and the House Ways and Means Committee meets this morning. A bill to create a flat income tax of three-percent is at the top of the agenda. The income tax rate for most Louisiana residents is either three-point-five percent or 4.25 percent. Governor Landry hates the state income tax…

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To offset the loss of income tax revenue, lawmakers are being asked to eliminate dozens of sales tax exemptions and taxing services that are currently not taxed.

Earlier this year, now President-elect Donald Trump called Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy one of the worst U-S Senators and a total flake. Cassidy voted to convict Trump of inciting a riot at the U-S Capitol. Cassidy says he’s excited Trump is back in the White House and plans to support the President’s agenda…

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Louisiana’s oil and gas industry is hailing the re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Voter turnout for Tuesday’s election was slightly lower than in 2020, when two point one million people voted. For this Presidential election it was two-million votes and a turnout of 66-percent. 60-percent of the voters voted for President-elect Trump. In 2020, Trump received 58-percent of the vote in Louisiana.