LBP is cited in The New York Times!

The Louisiana Budget Project was cited in The New York Times article entitled, “Do Good C.E.O.’s Make Good Presidents?”

Here is an excerpt:
. . . But many critics, like Jan Moller, director of the Louisiana Budget Project, an advocacy group for the state’s poor, worries that cutting taxes and decreasing government spending will ensure that the affluent remain comfortable and the poor remain stuck. “The cuts-only approach has hurt Louisiana more than it’s helped,” he told me.

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The governor's plan will mainly benefit corporations and the wealthy, while working and middle-class families will pay more for services and products we use every day such as diapers, garbage collection, haircuts and home repairs. Louisiana’s tax system certainly needs to be improved, but this is the wrong way to do it.
Gov. Jeff Landry has called the Legislature into a special session to overhaul Louisiana’s tax structure.