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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Legalizing Marijuana Is Louisiana's Best Chance to Solve Its Incarceration, Health, and Economic Problems 🌿Legalizing Marijuana Is Louisiana's Best Chance to Solve Its Incarceration, Health, and Economic Problems
Louisiana is in quite a predicament: It’s broke, really broke.
State lawmakers just barely averted meltdown Wednesday by weaving together a patchwork of last-minute, temporary measures to clear up most of a near $940+ million budget shortfall. The state is still $30 million in the hole, and will have to resolve another $800 million deficit come the next fiscal year on July 1— all gifts left behind by former governor Bobby Jindal. Louisiana’s new Governor, John Bel Edwards, has inherited these big shorts, and there is no easy way out.
As the Associated Press reports, Jindal went wild distributing state tax credits, privatizing services, and plundering state reserves during his two terms as governor in the name of keeping his promise to not raise taxes. All this did was leave Louisiana residents “living in a fictional world for the last eight years,” Jindal’s former lieutenant governor, Jay Dardenne, told the AP. (The...
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