[Howlin]

More taxpayers' money.

Oh, you haven't heard their latest idea!

If we, the taxpayers of the United States, won't give them what they want, the state of Lousisiana is going to make it up by charing a TARIFF on the gas and oil, etc., that moves through the pipes from NO to the other states.

That'll win them a lot of friends, won't it?

[A.Hun]

That's wishful thinking...prohibited by the constitution.

Of course, the surrounding states could charge a tariff on food that flows into LA if they really want to go that direction.

[TheBrotherhood]

Can they NO/LA charge a tariff w/o federal intervention.

I ain't no lawyer, but it sounds that this tariff may have national ramifications, hence the federal government would have a say at it.

[Gabz]

I saw that, and I'm still shaking my head in wonderment.........

[SAJ]

Friends or not, it won't happen. Such an action is **expressly** prohibited by the Constitution. This idea is, however, a good measure of the general corruptness and utter stupidity of LA politicos.

Not to say that other states' pols might not be as corrupt and/or stupid, merely that they don't happen to be under the national microscope at the moment.