State Rep. Roger Wilder urges ‘yes’ on Amendment 2, outlines income-tax cuts and teacher pay

State Representative Roger Wilder III told the Livingston Parish Council on March 2025 that he will vote “yes” on Amendment 2 and asked parish voters to do the same, saying the measure lowers personal and corporate income taxes and directs money to teacher pay.

"Amendment 2 does do the following: it does lower the maximum state income tax from 4.75 to 3 percent," Wilder said, adding that the proposal raises the individual standard deduction from $4,500 to $12,500 and doubles the deduction for many seniors. He described the plan as a permanent $3,000 pay raise for certified and noncertified teachers and said the state will apply money from the Millennium Trust Fund to pay down $2 billion of teacher-retirement debt.

Wilder said the amendment would also cut the corporate tax rate from 7.5 to 5.5 percent, remove the franchise tax and allow elimination of corporate…