When Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana wanted to sell his plan to replace his state’s income tax with a higher sales tax, he pointed to Texas as both the problem and the solution.
Too many Louisiana residents are moving to Texas because that is where the jobs are, he said. The jobs are there, he argued, because Texas does taxes right.
“You go to Dallas, you go to Houston, and there are entire neighborhoods that are filled with our neighbors from Louisiana,” Jindal said last month during a speech to the St. Tammany West Chamber of Commerce.