The Louisiana House has advanced a sales tax measure seen as a compromise and significant movement in a chamber that has struggled on the issue through three special sessions.
The House had been locked in impasse over whether to renew half or two-fifths of an expiring 1-cent sales tax. Under one scenario, the state sales tax rate would go from 5 percent to 4.5 percent on July 1; under the other, the tax rate would go from 5 percent to 4.4 percent.
In a 74-24 vote and after little discussion, the House agreed to advance a bill that would renew nine-twentieths and set the state sales tax rate at 4.45 percent.
And by, it, I mean they have managed to escape this year's labyrinth of sessions without having achieved anything of substance. Now everybody can go home and start the 2019 campaign complaining about the same untenable status quo we came into 2018 with. This suits most of the Republicans just fine which is why this ultimately passed. Not sure how the Governor is going to make out. But, the field is clear for anybody who wants to challenge. That may change now that the script is a little more obvious.
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