Holy crap. I thought we were through with Bobby Jindal! He shut down his doomed presidential campaign — and gave up his seat in the 2016 Republican clown car — last fall just before Thanksgiving, and his second term as governor of Louisiana ended in January. But apparently the remnants of this right-wing shitbag’s horrifying policies have sent his state into an economic death spiral ... and they may not be able to recover.
During his eight years as governor, Bobby Jindal cut Children and Family Services by 60%, closed every clinic that provided women’s reproductive health services, refused the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion, cut funding to higher education by 44%, cut spending for public hospitals by $64 million, ruined public schools and dismantled the income tax system to such a degree that the neediest citizens in the state received $800 million less for essential services. Undissuaded, Jindal decided that more tax breaks would cure the shortfall (why do Republicans always believe stupid horseshit like this?) and proposed a $25,000 annual tax break for the state’s richest people and a tax hike for the bottom 80%. The legislature had a stroke. Worse yet, Jindal’s corporate tax breaks were so generous they looked more like bribes than subsidies. And they probably were.
Congratulations, Bobby. Louisiana is a disaster and your legacy is one for the record books!
I just took a fistful of pain meds, and before it kicks in I think I’d better relocate to the family room and stretch out on the chaise. Dinner would be a good idea, too, but I’m definitely more tired than hungry right now. I’ll have to postpone food until later.
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