Jindal: Out, corporate & income tax. In, increased sales tax.

[Indy Texas]

Sales tax is the worst possible tax ever. Yes, it provides a lot of revenue, but it hurts the poor more than the rich. Huey Long is rolling in his grave.

Huey Long's administration wasn't exactly a model of good government either. Honestly, the only governor that state has produced who wasn't corrupt, incompetent or an ideologue may have been Buddy Roemer. And we all know where that got him.

[Indy Texas]

Sales tax only is awesome. LA's been getting their lunch eaten by TX.

That has nothing to do with it and everything to do with LA's terrible roads, terrible public schools and a population that can't handle anything more complicated than boiling crawfish. The only time the rest of the country sets foot there is to get drunk or gamble.

[Indy Texas]

Louisiana does rely on tourism as a major employer and revenue generator.  Would tourists blindly accept that rate or would they decide to go somewhere cheaper?

Actually this is why the plan might actually work (if we ignore the F the poor factor). Lots of people visit New Orleans, and a 3% increase in sales taxes is not going to change that.

Agreed. New Orleans is New Orleans and there really isn't anywhere else like it that it "competes" with. Because my own state is only selectively in favor of free markets and refuses to legalize casino gambling, the people in Houston will still go to LA to gamble. (They're not going to drive all the way up to Oklahoma to the Indian casinos over a 3% sales tax increase).