St. George and the future of EBR

If 65% of the tax base for BR was outside the city of BR, that was unsustainable regardless of St George incorporating.

How many other cities in the country were getting 65% of their tax money from areas they didn’t have to service?

They will continue to make government housing and give bs grants and housing approvals in the suburbs like they are doing in WBR, and swing back and gentrify BR in about 5 to 10 years.

I am happy for St. George getting the green light, but at the risk of being a wet blanket, I am afraid it may be too little too late for the entire area as it’s going to prove impossible to separate them from the crime that will affect both the same now and in the future to come, especially since we’ve all but guaranteed that the leadership in BR will remain fixed in a permanent state of hopelessness, and that’s going to have a real bleed over effect in St. George as well as the rest of the surrounding areas.

Truth is, we cannot run from any of this. We are going to have to tackle it head on OR you just have to leave the entire state and make a better quality of life for yourselves. Unless people plan on erecting a giant wall with a moat and alligators with .50 cal turrets mounted in random areas to keep the criminal and ugly at bay, this is going to eventually take over everywhere.

EBR’s most endearing trait is its endless devotion to mundane studies. Yet, the potential outcomes for this issue don’t warrant a second thought.

Yesterday the BR Business Report had a report that BR and EBR Parish continued to lose population. .The trend per the Census Bureau has been going on for three years.

I’d love to see the demographics. I’d wager our population is aging as younger folks exit the Parish.

BR mirrors our state. All our neighbors are growing while we decline.

Louisiana chose the movie industry, the gambling industry, and the trial lawyers and nursing home interests to support. What did our neighbors do?

We let the socialists run our parish and instead of teaching our children EBR feeds them three meals a day and the system pats itself on the back. Instead of bringing law and order and bringing the gangs to justice; they pretended that all is well as the killing ramped back up.

The engineers, consultants, and marketing groups are doing great though, Just look at how much they are able to donate to the politicians who control the awards to all these large public works programs.

All the headway that Downtown made under Kip was lost. All the progress made in stymying the gangs he made was lost when our govt. stabbed the cops in the back.
The govt. that fought SG.

The numbers:
Year. Population. Rate of change
1980 220,394 32.8%
1990 219,531 -0.4%
2000 227,818 3.8%
2010 229,493 0.7%
2020 227,470 -0.9%
U.S. Decennial Census[61]

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I have read that approximately 65% of the tax base for EBR is gone now. The roads and infrastructure are already in terrible condition.

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Quite curious that the roads would be so bad with all of that extra money coming in pretty much externally. Seems like EBR had plenty of time and opportunity to do right by their constituents.

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have read that approximately 65% of the tax base for EBR is gone now. The roads and infrastructure are already in terrible condition.

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St. George is still part of EBR, we are not part of the city of baton rouge, nor were we ever.

The St. George founders are out modern day Founding Fathers. This city will be a new bastion of freedom, of Republican and libertarian ideals.

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I have read that approximately 65% of the tax base for EBR is gone now.

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Pleas point us to where you read that.