Word: taxed
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...Buddy Roemer, 45, took over as Governor of Louisiana last year, he struck the pose of a reformer determined to energize a state with the nation's highest unemployment and one of its worst educational systems. Now he is staggering, jolted by the defeat of his key reform: a tax plan that would have shifted some of the burden from business to the middle class...
Saying he was "disappointed" that 55% of the voters had rejected his plan, Roemer last week proposed laying off thousands of state employees and closing vocational schools and hospitals. That would shrink up to $720 million from a budget already shriveled by a decline in tax revenues from oil companies. It would still leave the legislature with an unhappy choice: extend the 3% sales tax that Roemer's new measures would have replaced or accept severe cutbacks in vital government services...
...being asked to pay a voluntary fee of $10-per-window for the privilege of gazing upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the view tax as a fund- raising gimmick. The total panes with a view...
Faude sent bills to the occupants of those offices last week, and already two companies have paid up: a savings bank (94 panes) and an insurance firm (twelve). How will Faude enforce his tax on neighbors who would rather view for free? He jokes, "The next time the window washers come around, somebody may find their view has been painted...
McGovern convinced the full Senate that the state, reeling from tax revenue shortages, did not have the cash to pay more than $71 million in bills...