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re: Legislative session opens today. It will be a disaster.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:55 am to Slippy
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:55 am to Slippy
You like many have fallen right into the entitlement trap.
TOPS is not a necessity but you and others now see it as an entitlement. It started out with good intentions at a time when La. could afford it, but quickly became a huge albatross that the state can't afford.
The facts are La. can not afford TOPS, the Film giveaways, and the Medicare Expansion which are all relatively new entitlements.
Now we are trying to pay for all these extras at a time when our state has fought off floods and a world wide global collapse of oil. It's too big of a burden for folks to pay more taxes and whether it's a CAT, s sales tax, a gas tax of whatever; the people will pay it one way or another.
TOPS is not a necessity but you and others now see it as an entitlement. It started out with good intentions at a time when La. could afford it, but quickly became a huge albatross that the state can't afford.
The facts are La. can not afford TOPS, the Film giveaways, and the Medicare Expansion which are all relatively new entitlements.
Now we are trying to pay for all these extras at a time when our state has fought off floods and a world wide global collapse of oil. It's too big of a burden for folks to pay more taxes and whether it's a CAT, s sales tax, a gas tax of whatever; the people will pay it one way or another.
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Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:00 am to doubleb
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The facts are La. can not afford TOPS, the Film giveaways, and the Medicare Expansion which are all relatively new entitlements.
Only one of those things is an entitlement.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:00 am to doubleb
The problem is that the state cut funding for universities and rose tuition, which simply shifted the cost without changing who pays (the state). It was basically just reshuffling deck chairs on the Titanic. Until we reform our ever-growing bureaucracies in higher ed, consolidate schools so we can fund the remaining ones at a higher level, and set some higher standards for receiving TOPS, it will continue to be Groundhogs Day regarding slashing our higher ed budget. I think this is where pot legalization and taxation should come in. A dedicated "higher education fund" should be the destination for no less than 60% of any state tax receipts collected from sales of legal weed.
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