Stelly Plan

Just 15 days remain until Gov. John Bel Edwards’ self-imposed deadline for legislative leaders to agree on a fix for the fiscal cliff. “Jan. 19 — the day…

As the past two years with six legislative sessions have shown, fixing the fiscal cliff is not easy.“The citizens of this state do not want to raise their…

When the Sales Tax Streamlining Commission met Monday, they considered doing away with the state sales tax exemption on food purchased for home…

As lawmakers discuss how to fix the state budget shortfall and change the tax structure to prevent recurrence, “Stelly” keeps coming up.“Once we gave up…

Finding the way down off the fiscal cliff could be as simple as turning around, and looking back at the path that brought us here.“The root of our current…

Jim talks with former state lawmaker Vic Stelly, architect of the Stelly Tax Swap Plan which was enacted and repealed within a decade.Conservative…