(The Center Square) – The Louisiana House voted Monday to advance a state constitutional amendment meant to restrain state spending.
The same measure sailed through the Louisiana Legislature last year before being defeated by voters at a 56-44 margin. The change faced some opposition in the House this year, requiring two votes Monday to gain the assent of the two-thirds of members needed for passage.
Rep. Beau Beaullieu, R-New Iberia, authored House Bill 276 and the associated House Bill 273, which taken together would strip the current expenditure limit from the constitution and replace it with a more complex formula.
Louisiana has a spending limit calculated based on the old limit multiplied by the average personal income growth over the past three years. Because of the compounding effect, the limit rarely comes into play, which Beaullieu said makes it meaningless. read more
…defeated by voters at a 56-44 margin. Or defeated by voting machine? Or corrupt counters? Every bill, every election is now in doubt. Thanks Not-so-Supreme Court.
I live in Louisiana and the voter margin is likely real and not made by machine. Our election of the governor was likely fraud as we are used to that and the reason we could easily see the steal in the presidential election. But a rule of thumb here is that if our crooked legislatures, both parties, desire something then vote it down. Our politicians rarely have our best interest in mind.
When you figure how many people in Nawlins get money from the government, I can see why the voters rejected it.