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<text id=89TT1286>
<title>
May 15, 1989: American Notes:Louisiana
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 15, 1989 Waiting For Washington
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 39
American Notes
LOUISIANA
Reform Deformed
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<p> When bouncy Buddy Roemer, 45, took over as Governor of
Louisiana last year, he struck the pose of a reformer
determined to energize a state with the nation's highest
unemployment and one of its worst educational systems. Now he
is staggering, jolted by the defeat of his key reform: a tax
plan that would have shifted some of the burden from business
to the middle class.
</p>
<p> Saying he was "disappointed" that 55% of the voters had
rejected his plan, Roemer last week proposed laying off
thousands of state employees and closing vocational schools and
hospitals. That would shrink up to $720 million from a budget
already shriveled by a decline in tax revenues from oil
companies. It would still leave the legislature with an unhappy
choice: extend the 3% sales tax that Roemer's new measures would
have replaced or accept severe cutbacks in vital government
services.
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</body></article>
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