10.5.13

To get rid of one-time money, hawks embrace it

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Q: What do “fiscal hawks” do when they want to spend scarlet “one-time money” on general fund operating expenses? A: They call it “amne...
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9.5.13

Sick tax resurrection requires vigilance to stop later

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Don’t look now, and it may take while, but on top of increased premiums, pricing, and taxes resulting from imposition of the Patient Protect...
8.5.13

Funding affirmed voucher program poses little difficulty

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The Louisiana Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the funding mechanism for the state’s scholarship voucher program causes another compl...
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7.5.13

Hawks endorse selling out smaller govt for more taxes

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With the presentation of their New Coke-like alternative budget plan for Louisiana’s upcoming fiscal year, the self-styled “fiscal hawk” bu...
6.5.13

Despite window dressing, expansion bill merits rejection

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While the latest attempt to expand Medicaid coverage in Louisiana has been greeted with some success politically and in public relations te...
5.5.13

Hawks may empower Jindal, Democrats while maiming selves

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First, it was the political agenda of the moribund Louisiana Democrats that the so-called “fiscal hawks” may revive. And depending on wh...
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2.5.13

End, don't mend, both solar and film giveaways

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It’s a start to reducing wasteful spending in Louisiana government, but the timidity involved seems unlikely to start the snowball rolling n...
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1.5.13

Shift in hawk focus might bring them, state success

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With the first move made on the Louisiana budgetary chess board, the next came yesterday setting up the potential for competing versions o...
30.4.13

Hawks succeeding in defeating genuine spending reform

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The self-styled “fiscal hawks” of the Louisiana House of Representatives won a couple of battles yesterday – at the cost of near-certai...
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29.4.13

Dedications overuse until changed requires funds sweeps

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As the Legislature prepares to grapple with the annual budgeting exercise, special attention has come to the practice of “funds sweeps,” hop...
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