Hey Reddawg, thanks for weighing in. I'm still not positive how I'm going to vote...Originally Posted by Reddawg
Looking at your numbers above: Do you know what the median income in Louisiana is???
Here's another tidbit:
In 1999, 37.3% of jobs in Louisiana paid below the wage needed to lift a family of four above the poverty line with full-time, full-year work. The share of jobs that pay poverty-level wages declined slightly over the 1990s, but Louisiana still has a greater share of these jobs than in the nation as a whole.
That's from Mishel, Lawrence, Bernstein, and Schmitt. 2000.
State of Working America 2000-01. Economic Policy Institute. www.epinet.org
Again, it's pretty safe to say that a lot of those folks are paying A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THEIR INCOME in sales taxes than people with higher incomes. Where's the equity there?
I've got a couple more thoughts, though, that I'll try to get to later.
By the by, did anybody catch "The State We're In" this week?