4 Amendments - Louisiana- what’s your take

WWL/Clancy Dubos said no to all = I'll be voting YES to all.

Here's Amendment 2:

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Proposed Amendment No. 2
Act 1 (2024 Third Extraordinary Session) - Proposing to revise Article VII of the Constitution of
Louisiana, relative to revenue and finance; to provide with respect to the power of taxation including
limitations thereon; to require uniformity with respect to certain local and state tax measures; to
provide with respect to assessment of property and other items of taxation; to provide with respect
to remittal of some or all of certain tax revenues to local entities; to provide with respect to rates of
taxation; to provide with respect to dedication of certain revenue; to provide with respect to bonded
indebtedness including limitations thereon; to provide with respect to the Interim Emergency Board;
to provide with respect to the State Bond Commission; to provide with respect to deposit of monies
received by the state or its instrumentalities; to provide with respect to the Bond Security and
Redemption Fund; to provide with respect to expenditure of state revenues; to provide with respect
to the Revenue Estimating Conference; to provide with respect to appropriations; to provide with
respect to deficits; to provide with respect to budgets; to provide with respect to publication of certain
data; to provide with respect to the Budget Stabilization Fund; to provide with respect to the
Transportation Trust Fund including subfunds thereof; to provide with respect to the Coastal
Protection and Restoration Fund; to provide for establishing certain classes of trusts and funds in the
state treasury; to provide with respect to designation of certain trusts and funds in the state treasury
as a member of such classes; to provide with respect to the Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund
including subfunds thereof; to provide with respect to the Mineral Revenue Audit and Settlement
Fund; to provide with respect to the Oilfield Site Restoration Fund; to provide with respect to the Oil
Spill Contingency Fund; to provide with respect to the Millennium Trust and any funds within it; to
provide with respect to the Louisiana Fund; to provide with respect to the Artificial Reef Development
Fund; to provide with respect to the legislature's authority to take certain actions; to provide with
respect to the Hospital Stabilization Formula and Fund; to provide with respect to the Louisiana
Medical Assistance Trust Fund and any accounts therein; to provide with respect to the Revenue
Stabilization Trust Fund; to provide with respect to the Conservation Fund; to provide with respect to
public access to certain revenue and expenditure information; to provide with respect to investment
of certain monies; to provide with respect to things of value; to provide with respect to cooperative
endeavors; to provide with respect to prior obligations regarding things of value; to provide with
respect to release or extinguishment of certain obligations; to provide with respect to taxes; to require
transfer of certain assets to the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana; to provide with respect
to the authority of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana regarding calculation of system
liabilities and required funding; to provide with respect to use by certain political subdivisions of
certain revenues to provide a salary increase for certain personnel; to provide with respect to
valuation of property for tax purposes; to provide with respect to treatment of certain property,
income, or things of value for tax purposes; to provide with respect to tax liability; to provide with
respect to reduction or elimination of tax liability in certain circumstances; to provide with respect to
certain payments to political subdivisions; to provide with respect to invalidation or impairment of
certain taxes or obligations; to provide with respect to millage rates; to provide with respect to tax
assessors; to provide with respect to tax sales; to provide with respect to liens and privileges; to
provide with respect to the Revenue Sharing Fund; to provide with respect to the Louisiana
Unclaimed Property Permanent Trust Fund; to create the Local Revenue Fund; to provide relative to
the severance tax allocation on brine; to make technical and conforming changes; to provide for
submission of the proposed amendment to the electors; and to provide for related matters.
Do you support an amendment to revise Article VII of the Constitution of Louisiana including revisions
to lower the maximum rate of income tax, increase income tax deductions for citizens over sixty-five,
provide for a government growth limit, modify operation of certain constitutional funds, provide for
property tax exemptions retaining the homestead exemption and exemption for religious
organizations, provide a permanent teacher salary increase by requiring a surplus payment to
teacher retirement debt, and make other modifications? (Amends Article VII, Sections 1 through 28;
Adds Article VII, Sections 29 through 42)

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That's a no for me, Dog.

Breakdown - CABL


Seems without a left or right lean.

The most important thing for me in ascension is we have a home rule charter that will allow the council to give itself pay raises so it’s not just the national level. Local politicians are just as greasy. They said they need more than 16k a year to do their job aka approve more subdivisions and charge me an impact tax to move within the parish.

I am a YES on all 4. I am tired of Louisiana being too scared to make real changes. I don’t want my grandkids to grow up in a banana republic.

It is a YES for me!

Yes 1- 3. I'm ambivalent about 4 so I'll vote no unless someone convinces me.

Guide to number 2

Yes on 2 is important for tax changes

https://cabl.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-Constitutional-Amendment-2-Snapshot.pdf

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I don’t want my grandkids to grow up in a banana republic.

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Too late and will always be a banana republic.

Anyone voting No on Amendment 2 is ignorant

* Provides for a reduction in La income taxes
* Moves homestead exemption out of the legislatures grasp
* Doubles the tax exemption for Seniors (which all of us will be one day)
* Separates churches from non-profits (like USAID funded) and moves religion protection into the Constitution
* Eliminates the damn inventory tax
* Pays off $2 billion in state debt