Jindal junks tax repeal in favor of phase-outs. Who pays? Who cares!
The revenue offsets in his initial plan were always completely negotiable as long as they yielded an income tax repeal. That's why it kept changing.
Author: Mark Moseley
- About Mark Moseley
- Mark Moseley is The Lens’ Engagement Editor. He produces The Lens’ newsletters that highlight our essential local reporting and sharp commentary on issues that matter to New Orleanians. During an earlier stint with the Lens, he wrote opinion columns, coordinated the Charter Schools Reporting Corps and launched the “What We’re Reading” link roundup. His opinion writing earned a first-place award from The New Orleans Press Club in 2012. Moseley has lived in New Orleans since 1996 and co-founded the Rising Tide new media conference, which ran annually from 2006 to 2015.
Moseley gives Bobby a break! Taking another look at Jindal-nomics
Moseley acknowledges it’s a bit of a confidence game at first, but if the tax plan coincides with continuing business expansion, voodoo economics may finally have found its high priest.
Letten at the plate: Was the federal prosecutor using a corked bat?
Columnist Moseley wonders whether Jim Letten's downfall was rooted more deeply than many pundits acknowledge.
Does stunning collapse of River Birch case portend uglier revelations ahead?
Now it appears that there may have been more serious and systemic problems during Letten’s term than we ever knew.
New group makes timely debut in fight against lead poisoning
The link between lead poisoning and crime is a mystery that none of the usual hypotheses — such as “get tough” police laws — can explain.
Zack Kopplin speaks for science and the nation takes notice—will Louisiana?
Says Moseley: The real issue is public money being used to support sham science. Doubting evolution is fine on your own time or in religion class, perhaps.
Interview with Zack Kopplin: Creationism is an economic threat to Louisiana
Ref’s bad call spared us eternal ignominy for Super Bowl blackout
Nagin’s weird ride: from showboat to search for anonymity
“Simply put, the Ray Nagin of 2013 is almost unrecognizable as the man who swept New Orleans off its feet in 2002," writes Gordon Russell.
