He has not promised to veto any tax increases the Legislature might add to his executive budget.

But, he said, he expects the Legislature to add to it in budget negotiations.

In recent years, the governor's proposal has set the floor for debate, and the negotiations have focused on how much the Legislature will add to it.

That means every time the Legislature adds a new program under Medicaid, local governments pick up much of the bill.

Then the Legislature could add whatever it wanted, in effect taking over.

By 2002 the Legislature of Louisiana added a boot camp program to the prison.

The Whitman administration and the Legislature added that money in last year's state budget.

The Legislature has added money every year since 1993, when interest rates dropped and the fund was not providing nearly enough money for legal services.

Finally, the Legislature added $300 million worth of spending to the Governor's proposed budget.

In the 1978 death penalty law the Legislature specified 10, but has since added 7 more.