Post by pavel on Feb 27, 2016 2:27:49 GMT -6
Louisiana House members question their own staff's work, while looking for more money
State lawmakers are doing everything they can to find money to plug the state's budget deficit without raising taxes -- including challenging their own staff's financial analysis of tax legislation.
The Louisiana Legislature's state economists agreed to take a second look at three tax bills after members of the Louisiana House of Representatives questioned whether the financial analysis the economists offered on the legislation was accurate.
The Louisiana House of Representatives held an official "fiscal note review" meeting to challenge its economist's analyses of the three bills Friday morning (Feb. 26). It was the first meeting of that kind that had ever been called in the history of the Legislature.
"I know no one wants to make votes where we have to tax people more than we have to," said Rep. Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans. "At the same time, we don't want to cut people more than we have to."
Read more: www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/louisiana_house_challenges_fis.html
State lawmakers are doing everything they can to find money to plug the state's budget deficit without raising taxes -- including challenging their own staff's financial analysis of tax legislation.
The Louisiana Legislature's state economists agreed to take a second look at three tax bills after members of the Louisiana House of Representatives questioned whether the financial analysis the economists offered on the legislation was accurate.
The Louisiana House of Representatives held an official "fiscal note review" meeting to challenge its economist's analyses of the three bills Friday morning (Feb. 26). It was the first meeting of that kind that had ever been called in the history of the Legislature.
"I know no one wants to make votes where we have to tax people more than we have to," said Rep. Neil Abramson, D-New Orleans. "At the same time, we don't want to cut people more than we have to."
Read more: www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/louisiana_house_challenges_fis.html