The Louisiana Legislature has killed an effort to allow local governments to seek gas taxes to pay for critical infrastructure improvements.
That’s a shame.
The bill that was effectively killed earlier this week would not have imposed taxes on anyone. It would have simply allowed local voters to decide whether they want to pay extra gas taxes.
That seems fair, regardless of what one thinks about the particular merits of any given tax question.
What the Legislature did, though, was deny local taxpayers across the state the ability to decide for themselves.