re: Is it a lie that Rispone wants to get rid of the homestead exemption????

Yes. His plan is to turn control of the homestead exemption to your local parish. Then your parish police jury will decide whether to reduce or eliminate the exemption. They can't legally increase it above the 75K. So what would your parish do? Reducing it allows for more local taxes, but allows Rispone to say he technically didn't raise your taxes the parish did. More gimmicks, smoke and mirrors like Jindal did in office.

It's why Rispone has been so SILENT on the issue.

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Rispone won’t get into details of what he wants to strike from the constitution. But while the GOP contender is scant with specifics, his allies in the business community and at the conservative think tank Pelican Institute for Public Policy have sought a constitutional convention and offered ideas, providing clues of what Rispone might want to accomplish.

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Rispone’s allies have suggested: Eliminating the statewide property tax exemption for homeowners, known as the homestead exemption, letting parishes decide if they’ll maintain an exemption and its size.

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