From staunch Jindal ally the Baton Rouge Business Report: During the first stop of her initial listening tour across Louisiana, Baton Rouge native and businesswoman, actress, writer, and director Stormy Daniels stated that she supports The Fair Tax, a tax reform measure widely promoted by conservative talk radio hosts like Neil Boortz.
According to Daniels, she favors a complete repeal of the income tax and applying an across the board national retail sales tax. Daniels believes that the current tax code penalizes success, and reform is needed.
From the Advocate and the Associated Press: After an ‘08 budget that increased spending and cut taxes, Governor Jindal faces the realities of a collapse in oil prices and the economy in general, setting up the first real test of his political career.
From the Advocate: Joint filers will need federally adjusted gross incomes of at least $160,000 to qualify for the maximum tax reduction of $1,000 as joint filers with less than $50,000 will see no return at all. The average filer can expect about $6 back.
From the Advocate and WAFB: After popular conservative radio host Moon Griffon pulls blatantly false ads touting Jindal as the champion of the Stelly Tax roll back, top Jindal hack Rolfe McCollister pledges to continue running the ads in other markets. Meanwhile, Senator “Buddy” Shaw, sponsor of the Stelly rollback, clarifies the point that Jindal spent weeks trying to kill his effort to undo the Stelly Tax.
“The governor’s people were there to prevent it from coming out of the Senate committee. Then there was a major effort by the governor’s people to kill it on the Senate floor,” Shaw said.
From Forgotson.com: In an unprecendented move, conservative talk show host Moon Griffon has pulled ads purchased by the Jindal shadow campaign organization Believe in Louisiana. Griffon called the ads, which tout Jindal as a champion of the recent roll back of the Stelly Tax, ”an out-right lie” and notes that Jindal had opposed the tax cut until it passed.
As yet there is no word from BiL chairman and all around Jindal hack Rolfe McCollister on the embarassing developments surrounding the organization he founded to back-up what appears to be a never ending campaign for Governor Jindal.
From the Shreveport Times: House unaniomously approves measure that will return income tax rates to pre-Stelly levels. Democratic efforts to divert benefits to working poor fails along with an effort to phase out income taxes over five years.
From the Politico: Father of the anti-tax pledge and Abramoff middle man joins growing chorus of conservative pitchmen who think Bobby Jindal is just the ticket for McCain.
