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Louisiana Taxpayers Cover the Tab for Over 70 Percent of Local Pensions

Louisiana Taxpayers Cover the Tab for Over 70 Percent of Local Pensions

State lawmakers were not thinking about long term costs when they passed a law back in 1999 that allowed for taxpayers to pick up all or part of the tab for employee contributions to a local pension plan. Pension reform proposals will be up for discussion in the upcoming state legislative session

Budget, Featured March 30, 2011 7:58 am 2 Comments

Commentary: Cost of Government report sheds positive light on Louisiana, but national trend very alarming

Last week, on August 19th, Americans for Tax Reform revealed their annual Cost of Government Day, which, according to ATR, is the day “on which the average American has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burdens imposed by government on federal, state, and local levels.” [...]

Budget, Transparency August 24, 2010 4:34 pm 0 Comments