Is increasing Taxes the solution for NO?

Posted by BugAC

St. George

Member since Oct 2007

52859 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 2:59 pm to fareplay

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Increasing taxes can hire more police force and give incentive for big businesses to invest in NO again. Is that the solution? Would you support it?

NO doesnt' have a revenue problem. They have a liberal marxist problem. Your solution is part of the problem.

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Posted by Clames

Member since Oct 2010

16623 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:02 pm to fareplay

When has increasing taxes ever solved any problem?

Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

Member since Mar 2008

73681 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:03 pm to fareplay

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Increasing taxes can hire more police force

Pay isn't the reason NOPD is falling apart.

I would support a tax increase if I was convinced the dollars would solve actual problems.

This post was edited on 8/17/23 at 3:04 pm

Posted by Traveler

I'm not late-I'm early for tomorrow

Member since Sep 2003

24274 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:03 pm to fareplay

Increased taxes won't "fix" what is the problem in NO.

Posted by LazloHollyfeld

Steam Tunnel at UNC-G

Member since Apr 2009

1601 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:04 pm to fareplay

Spend the current revenue appropriately. Strip the budget of “feel good” bs and fund infrastructure and crime prevention.

Posted by PrecedentedTimes

Member since Dec 2020

3128 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:05 pm to fareplay

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increasing Taxes

quote:
solution

LMAOOOO

Posted by Limitlesstigers

Lafayette

Member since Nov 2019

2902 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:06 pm to fareplay

Liberal entitlement is what is killing New Orleans, don't need more of it.

Posted by JasonDBlaha

Woodlands, Texas

Member since Apr 2023

2393 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:06 pm to Clames

Increasing property taxes can help with making the schools look nicer as well as suburbs more affluent. It prices out the riff raff and undesirables which helps lower the crime rate in a particular area. That’s the only positive I see out of taxes. Everything else is bullshite.

State income tax should be zero as well as retirement. The idea of taxing money that was earned and built by someone for years and years is absolutely absurd. The blue-haired cucks on Reddit can take their pro-state income tax opinions and shove it up their fricking asses.

This post was edited on 8/17/23 at 3:15 pm

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Posted by SportsGuyNOLA

New Orleans, LA

Member since May 2014

17123 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:07 pm to fareplay

The taxes are already outrageously high in New Orleans.

Posted by Clint Torres

Member since Oct 2011

2662 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:07 pm to fareplay

I paid $1,000 a month in property tax in NO and there were no schools, roads, or cops.. Perhaps the city needs more taxpayers.

Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

Member since Mar 2008

73681 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:08 pm to JasonDBlaha

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It prices out the riff raff and undesirables

This won't work on a scale the size of a city.

Posted by TigerIron

Member since Feb 2021

3057 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:08 pm to fareplay

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Increasing taxes can hire more police force and give incentive for big businesses to invest in NO again. Is that the solution? Would you support it?

Assuming you mean "the final solution," then sure. NO is already in a death spiral, but raising taxes certainly could speed it along.

There's also zero evidence that they'd use extra tax money to improve public safety or that the reason New Orleans is collapsing into anarchy has to do with a lack of tax money.

If it's about money, maybe don't blow 30 million dollars on a train line that will never be built and spend that on policing instead. And even then, you'd need a DA and mayor that actually cared about stopping crime.

Posted by DandyPimp

New Orleans

Member since Jan 2007

1090 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:09 pm to LazloHollyfeld

The city is actually not in terrible financial condition. I'm convinced the only feasible way to efficiently rebuild the police force is to provide massive incentives to officers that have recently quit the force. Rehires can be back on the street in days versus weeks for new recruits.

I hate government pensions and other fringe benefits but can get over that in order to get more police on the streets quickly.

Posted by Death Before Disco

Member since Dec 2009

6179 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:09 pm to fareplay

Tbh, decreasing taxes might be a better idea. Make NOLA have the lowest taxes of any major city, and you might attract some businesses and more people to the city, which could actually increase tax revenue.

Posted by LSU fan 246

Member since Oct 2005

90567 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:11 pm to fareplay

50% of the adult male population of the majority race is unemployed. Fix that and you will get some more tax money to waste

Posted by SportsGuyNOLA

New Orleans, LA

Member since May 2014

17123 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:11 pm to Death Before Disco

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Tbh, decreasing taxes might be a better idea. Make NOLA have the lowest taxes of any major city, and you might attract some businesses and more people to the city, which could actually increase tax revenue.

I’m all for this

100%

Posted by jaytothen

Member since Jan 2020

6423 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:13 pm to fareplay

It's NEVER the solution you dunce

Posted by fightin tigers

Downtown Prairieville

Member since Mar 2008

73681 posts

Posted on 8/17/23 at 3:14 pm to SportsGuyNOLA

Attracting any actual businesses will be hard because of the stigma of eventually going underwater.

Miami has some of the same issues, but didn't really have a world display of everything underwater followed by 20 years of "we are sinking and can't figure it out"

The crime and education is just icing on the cake for not attracting businesses.