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re: Is it a lie that Rispone wants to get rid of the homestead exemption????
Posted on 11/13/19 at 8:32 am to TDsngumbo
Posted on 11/13/19 at 8:32 am to TDsngumbo
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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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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Posted on 11/13/19 at 8:43 am to LSUgrad1998
Well I’ll be dammed. I live in Ascension where the incoming parish president and council want to make huge improvements to infrastructure (which is needed) but I’m not confident that they would keep the homestead exemption at $75k if the state gets rid of it. They could really use that extra money right now to fund their ideas while saying they didn’t increase our taxes, the state did. And our voters here in Ascension are just dumb enough to believe that, too.
The fact that Rispone is silent on this issue worries me. And I’m a huge arse Rispone supporter. I need to do some more digging on this issue before Saturday.
The fact that Rispone is silent on this issue worries me. And I’m a huge arse Rispone supporter. I need to do some more digging on this issue before Saturday.
This post was edited on 11/13/19 at 8:44 am
Posted on 11/13/19 at 8:44 am to LSUgrad1998
I followed your link and it’s not an article of what Rispone says he’s going to do, but an article of what he might do.
Pure speculation.
Pure speculation.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 9:52 am to LSUgrad1998
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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.
Generally it is a good thing for citizens when more of their politics are controlled locally. They can have a more active voice and input in the local bureaucracy versus the state or federal one. Removing layers of government is a positive. The exemption as it is allows a lot of people to have no skin in the property tax game anyhow.
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