You act like the taxes from the ongoing jobs directly and indirectly created from this, the taxes on products sold to support these projects, etc isn't enough to justify the huge boom this will be for Louisiana.

That's not counting the taxes that these refineries do pay as it is.

If it bothers you so maybe you should move to a state like Cali that has killed off all of it's industry with it's unfriendly business taxes and is on the verge of being bankrupt. Cali has huge taxes and penalties on air pollution too and look what good that has done for them. Smog everywhere and a dwindling tax base to do anything about it. I just read an article where Cali isn't even number one in the world in movie making anymore. Guess who is though? Louisiana.

Or maybe you can move to Detroit where taxes and unions have forever drained and killed any chance of that state ever having any thriving industrial production facility ever again.

If you want to be upset about something, you should be more upset Louisiana gets raped so hard on it's offshore drilling royalties. That is far more damaging to us than anything IMO.

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Posted by WavinWilly

Wavin Away in Sharlo

Member since Oct 2010

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Posted on 4/19/14 at 7:55 am to stout

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If you want to be upset about something, you should be more upset Louisiana gets raped so hard on it's offshore drilling royalties. That is far more damaging to us than anything IMO.

This. I agree with this completely.

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Posted by Gaston

Dirty Coast

Member since Aug 2008

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Posted on 4/19/14 at 7:59 am to stout

Texas is different in what gets made, but we still do suffer air quality issues from them.

Companies use natural gas to create things here. They mine raw products from Florida, then ship it here to use the natural gas to make fertilizer. It creates a ton of bad shite. PVC...

It doesn't really matter, and I'm sure things are done more correctly now, but when Edwin created industrial jobs we all got fricked. The state stands more to gain than jobs and that's my point. If you created something here, you left something undesirable...you can't just walk away and leave the shite. I hope contracts are being written better this time around.

My family is from south of Lafayette, and say what you want about their lifestyle, but if you look at the cancer deaths on the family tree it is unreal.

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Posted by wallowinit

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Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 4/19/14 at 10:13 am to stout

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You act like the taxes from the ongoing jobs directly and indirectly created from this, the taxes on products sold to support these projects, etc isn't enough to justify the huge boom this will be for Louisiana.

That's not counting the taxes that these refineries do pay as it is.

If it bothers you so maybe you should move to a state like Cali that has killed off all of it's industry with it's unfriendly business taxes and is on the verge of being bankrupt. Cali has huge taxes and penalties on air pollution too and look what good that has done for them. Smog everywhere and a dwindling tax base to do anything about it. I just read an article where Cali isn't even number one in the world in movie making anymore. Guess who is though? Louisiana.

Or maybe you can move to Detroit where taxes and unions have forever drained and killed any chance of that state ever having any thriving industrial production facility ever again.

If you want to be upset about something, you should be more upset Louisiana gets raped so hard on it's offshore drilling royalties. That is far more damaging to us than anything IMO.