Posted on 06/16/2011 10:37:44 AM PDT by 92nina
Throughout the course of this year’s Louisiana budget debate, a storm has been brewing over how to resolve the state’s $1.2 billion overspending problem. At various points an internet sales tax, 194% tax hike on cigarettes, and restoring spending cuts were all floated as partial resolutions. Fortunately, Gov. Jindal’s pledge to “oppose and veto any and all efforts to raise taxes” has helped keep legislators focused on their primary task – reining in spending - with the exception of HB 591: a $12 million cigarette tax increase that Gov. Jindal promptly vetoed today. To override the governor’s veto, which hasn’t occurred in Louisiana since 1993, legislative leadership is working to secure the two-thirds vote needed to implement the tax hike. What many political observers will find odd is that the legislators spending scarce time and political capital whipping for a veto override vote to raise taxes are Jindal’s fellow Republicans. While balancing his budget, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was asked by reporters why he wouldn’t just take the easy way out and raise taxes, like proponents of HB 591 are currently trying to do. Christie’s response: “You and I have different ideas of what being a Republican is all about because I'm not going to raise taxes..."
Read more: http://www.atr.org/gov-jindal-vetoes-tax-hike-legislative-a6243#ixzz1PScSemCl
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Great governor. He should run for president.
After all, who needs to be a Natural Born Citizen anymore in order to be president?
Those republicans trying to override the veto are not true republicans...they are RINOs
Good, smart man who stands on principles. Too bad he doesn’t meet the eligibility requirement.
He meets them just fine.
This two citizen parent "requirement" is pure BS. If Jindal decides to throw his hat into the ring either as presidential candidate or running mate, he'll face no meaningful challenge regarding his eligibility other than a handful of birthers stomping their feet in futility.
BS.
Jindal is a good man and a great conservative. However, his parents were not naturalized until 4 years after his birth.
Meaning, he was born with a divided citizenship. His parents could not confer US citizenship, under the jurisdiction of the USA.
Does Elian Gonzales qualify for POTUS? (Yeah I know it’s extreme example but I’m trying to find your delineation point of who qualifies under the Constitution)
BS yourself.
Of course not. Elian Gonzales was born in Cuba to Cuban parents. He was never a U.S. citizen. Jindal was born in Louisiana. he's NBC (as is Miami-born Rubio).
As I said on the other thread. This "requirement" that parents must be U.S. citizens is nothing more than a myth manufactured by birthers after the 2008 election (and after repeated efforts failed to establish a Kenyan birth) to be a standard of eligibility that Obama could not possibly meet.
Nobody is buying it.
You ain’t right in the head.
If they are born of a divided citizenship they are not eligible.
You are wholly one thing or another.
If you are called up for the draft and avoid it by going to the other country, in which you have citizenship, you cannot be prosecuted and I wouldn’t blink an eye with some moral imperative.
Your loyalty is divided and you are free to make your own choices.
Back at ya.
Whose side are you on anyway? North Korea?
You can repeat this until you're blue in the face. Nobody is buying it. Obama remains the President and every single lawsuit that has challenged his eligibility has failed. And there remains not a court, congressman or conservative legal foundation of any sort that has embraced the definition of NBC that you and a handful of others are trying to establish as the unquestionable truth.
Common-sense
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