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Louisiana at risk of losing federal matching funds for infrastructure by 2019
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:14 am
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:14 am
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Transportation funding cliff looms over Louisiana
The state is short to meet federal expectations in 2019
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Interstate projects receive a 90 percent federal match to the state's contribution of ten percent. Highway projects are an 80 to 20 percent match. Every state uses a portion of their gas tax to get the matching dollars, but projections show Louisiana will be short by 2019.
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"That's disappointing because if President Trump is successful with an infrastructure package we could potentially see an increase in contributions from the federal government. That increase will come with an increased match. Which very well could mean if this President is successful, Louisiana may not be able to participate in any of those stimulus programs, or job creation programs, or infrastructure programs for transportation without the necessary match," Dr. Wilson said.
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Wilson said least 30-million-dollars is needed to make the state whole.
During this fiscal crisis, Louisiana's state government still has $25 million to waste on a Children's Museum in New Orleans, a breathtaking amount of waste/fraud when it comes to flood recovery, and a seemingly endless amount of waste to fund transportation "studies".
Perhaps they can commission another study to study the wasteful transportation studies?
This post was edited on 8/17/17 at 9:20 am
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Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:17 am to goofball
Also a massive medicaid expansion
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:17 am to goofball
Here comes JBE with another tax hike.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:18 am to Cosmo
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Also a massive medicaid expansion
Thanks.
Where would we be without having to come up with matching funds for medicaid expansion while the state's oil, gas, soybeans, and corn producers face record low prices?
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:20 am to Janky
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Here comes JBE with another tax hike.
Without any list of transportation projects that it would fund.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:23 am to Janky
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Here comes JBE with another tax hike.
It costs a lot to be that self-serving.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:24 am to member12
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Without any list of transportation projects that it would fund.
The building fund
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:26 am to goofball
I love that they will justify the tax hike with "we have to do it to get the federal dollars!" No. Cut some other BS spending and use that money.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:27 am to goofball
Now let's see, should we take this 30 million dollars from the General fund so we can get 270 million dollars from the Feds to pay for Highway Construction, or should we give it to Hollywood Film companies to come shoot movies in La.?
Easy question to answer right, we need to give it to the movie guys.
Easy question to answer right, we need to give it to the movie guys.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:29 am to goofball
Only in government can you indiscriminately piss away money then complain/beg that you don't have enough.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:29 am to doubleb
Where the hell is the casino money that was supposed to fix the roads??
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:32 am to HeadedToTheWoods
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ere the hell is the casino money that was supposed to fix the roads??
What?
And the way our constitution is structured, infrastructure funds only come from gas tax
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:35 am to HeadedToTheWoods
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Where the hell is the casino money that was supposed to fix the roads??
It got spent, but they simultaneously moved other funding away from things like the Comite Diversion Canal, road pavement rehab, or highway infrastructure.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:35 am to HeadedToTheWoods
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Where the hell is the casino money that was supposed to fix the roads?
It's right beside the lotto money for education, and the gas tax money from the last tax hike earmarked for infrastructure. It's been handed out and legislated out to the good ol boy network that Louisiana refuses to address.
I love this state, but every year that TX line gets closer and closer.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:35 am to Alt26
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Only in government can you indiscriminately piss away money then complain/beg that you don't have enough.
The Louisiana way.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:37 am to magildachunks
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And the way our constitution is structured, infrastructure funds only come from gas tax
Correct. But nobody wants to be educated. They just want to spew out ignorance. Everyone thinks they have the easy solution, only they don't.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:38 am to goofball
gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax gas tax NO. 
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:40 am to goofball
But the statues.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:50 am to Boudreaux35
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Correct. But nobody wants to be educated. They just want to spew out ignorance. Everyone thinks they have the easy solution, only they don't.
I haven't seen anyone post here that believes they have the solution.
Now I see a lot of people post that the state wastes our tax dollars, that the state spends tax dollars to help their friends and not to attack bigger problems, and that the state provides tax breaks to favored groups and provides pork to favored entities; however, I don't think anyone thinks it would be easy to cut out film tax credits, to close Grambling, to close SUNO, to quit building rec centers in Houma, or to pull the State Police out of New Orleans.
But I do think people know that we just saw a huge tax increase go to fund state government (1.3 Billion or roughly a 15% revenue hike) and we hear that wasn't enough and at the same time they want to double the gas tax and put us in the nation's top ten in gas taxes when we are already #1 in sales taxes.
I think they are saying our leaders need to cut out some things to fund the things we have to have, but they aren't doing that. They keep adding more things.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:55 am to goofball
Serious question, why don't more people move from Louisiana? If the STATE government can't manage to scrape together 30 million by 2019 for infrastructure, there's no way your government can do anything competently.
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