re: What is the Teacher's Union and Together Baton Rouge's point attacking Exxon

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Yea I wonder how many of these Teachers and Together BR folks even realize that your Exxon's and big plants in S La are a big reason Turner, Performance, Cajun Valve, Cajun Constructors, Eaton, Set Point, AWC, AmSpec, AirGas, Grainger, Sochem(GEAUX TIGERS! ) and a ton of other contractors/suppliers are doing so well in the area AND paying a shitload of taxes?

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There are typically 2 groups in these organizations. One that has zero understanding of economics/business/industry and the other that purposely manipulates these losers with false information. It's easy to control a group of angry losers by giving them a big bad enemy to fight whether its a corporation or St. George. It gives them a feeling of purpose that they don't have in their normal, shitty lives.

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Dude's wife definitely fricks other men. Also nice Baton Rouged typo, advocate.

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Go look at his bio on the BR Business Report. He's your typical NOLA area democrat slimeball like JBE and Mitch.

He also lives in New Orleans

This NOLA elite just has a soft spot for the disenfranchised of a city that he's never held residence.

ETA: looks like a few beat me to the punch

I believe his father ran as a Republican for Senate against J Bennett Johnston after serving in both houses of the Louisiana Legislator as both a Democrat and Republican.

Pappy is still a lawyer in NOLA and was a Catholic Leaguer. I believe he authored the LA Code of Evidence back in the late 80's.

This will go no where and get squashed.

Exxon probably has politicians on their payroll which is smart for them. Wouldn’t it be funny if Mayor SWB got a nice check from Exxon.
It would not be stupid on their part to protect their investments in the BR. If they did have politicians on their payroll would you blame them? No.

At the end of the day they provide jobs directly or indirectly to the BR metro area. TBR is shooting themselves in the foot going after the hand that feeds this community.

Everyone forgets the payroll taxes, taxes on goods and services purchased, state income taxes on all the salaries they pay etc etc etc.

Its a coordinated effort statewide, bc one of my teacher friends is making similar posts about Chalmette refinery, saying don't be fooled by their PR of giving out money for different things when they're not paying what their fair share is...

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onder why all of Exxon's new projects are going to Texas.

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Because Texas has competent business minded leaders in charge

Loren Scott letter: Together Baton Rouge says ExxonMobil not doing enough; here are the facts
BY LOREN SCOTT APR 11, 2018 - 6:00 PM (15)

My latest report on the economic impact of ExxonMobil’s four facilities indicates the company employs 6,915 employees and contract workers at an average wage of $74,158 a year — 51 percent above the average wage in East Baton Rouge Parish. For the last 10 years, the company has invested in excess of $250 million a year in capital spending at these plants. Taking into account the multiplier effect, every 10th job in the parish can be traced back to these four plants. Yet, Together Baton Rouge says ExxonMobil is not doing enough.

In 2017, ExxonMobil paid East Baton Rouge Parish $32.7 million in property taxes, two and a half times more than the 2nd ranked payer, Entergy. No other company in the state writes out a check that large to a parish government. In second place is Entergy, paying St. Charles Parish a much lower $20.1 million. But TBR says ExxonMobil is not doing enough.

Adding in direct and indirect sales taxes generated through the multiplier effect, ExxonMobil produced $88.5 million for our local government — enough money to pay the salaries of 58 percent of the public school teachers in the parish. As a result, depending on what ranking you use, our schoolteacher pay ranks between 11th and 16th in the state. But TBR says ExxonMobil is not doing enough.

In 2017, ExxonMobil and its employees contributed $1.4 million to our United Way, about 14 percent of UW’s total collections and the largest from any entity in the region. The ExxonMobil Foundation contributed $1.1 million to LSU and Southern universities last year, and the company and its employees and retirees contributed $4 million to Baton Rouge area nonprofits and schools. But TBR says ExxonMobil is not doing enough.

TBR points out that ExxonMobil’s Joliet Refinery in Illinois receives no property tax breaks. The Joliet Refinery is half the size of Baton Rouge's. Would TBR like to take all the numbers in the previous four paragraphs and cut them in half?

TBR says the company’s refineries in Texas pay more in property taxes. The refineries in Texas did not have to write out a check for $17.5 million in corporate income taxes like ExxonMobil did in Louisiana in 2016. In addition to no income tax, Texas has a unified sales tax collection, does not tax manufacturing utilities, does not tax manufacturing equipment, does not tax manufacturing inputs, has significantly lower local sales tax rates, and has a much higher ranking in education, roads and legal environment. But the “economists” with TBR say we do not need the industrial tax exemption to compete with Texas.

The Baton Rouge debate pushed by TBR can create a precedent for every parish with industrial facilities.

If TBR prevails, prepare for the poor in our community becoming much worse off.

LOREN SCOTT

economist

Baton Rouge

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Its a coordinated effort statewide, bc one of my teacher friends is making similar posts about Chalmette refinery, saying don't be fooled by their PR of giving out money for different things when they're not paying what their fair share is...

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That's because TBR is part of TLA which is the socialist activist group driving all this shite. I love how they act as if all this is independent, grass roots activism when all it takes is a few google searches to find out their game.