It’s hard for a state legislator to get much notice in a week when headlines were going to the threat of nationwide economic meltdown, a flamboyant cult leader’s arrest after his religious compounds were raided, and a vice presidential candidate’s labeling of Henry Kissinger as naive on foreign policy.

But Louisiana Rep. John LaBruzzo, R-Metairie, pulled off the trick when details leaked out about his self-described brainstorming

on curbing generational welfare.

LaBruzzo has proposed offering poor people—men and women—$1,000 for getting their tubes tied or ...

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