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Tax fight over, new state budget fights emerge

LOUISIANA SPOTLIGHT

After years of fights over budget cuts and taxes, Louisiana’s lawmakers have an unfamiliar problem this year, deciding where to spend millions of dollars in new and increased cash expected to arrive in the state treasury.

That also is prompting bickering.

Education seems likely to be a winner in new financing for the upcoming 2019-20 budget year, but fissures are opening as diff…

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