New Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards is threatening to cancel LSU’s 2016 football season if immediate tax increases are not passed.
Gov. Edwards is proposing the largest tax increase in Louisiana history due to the state’s current deficit. During Bobby’s Jindal’s administration, he cut taxes a number of times which included state funding to universities. With high oil prices in 2008 when he took office he was able to do that, but as we know oil prices have plummeted and that’s a big part of Louisiana’s economy.
Now LSU students are looking at the date of April 30th in which the school may have to cease operations as they will run out of money.