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re: Why do Louisiana conservatives like TOPS?
Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:04 am to Scoop
Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:04 am to Scoop
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TOPS is one of the few things that the middle class grinders that pay taxes actually get a return on.
Everyone wants their thing. For most people, that yearly TOPS scholarship, alone, is more than the LA state taxes you will pay for a year.
That's why we say there are no fiscal conservatives in LA.
That's ok... I totally understand that you see everyone else getting something and you want to get yours. Very natural.
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Posted on 6/25/18 at 9:17 am to LSUFanHouston
quote:But I continue to pay state income taxes long after (and before) my kids graduated from LSU. TOPS is only granted for 8 college semesters not for lifetime.
For most people, that yearly TOPS scholarship, alone, is more than the LA state taxes you will pay for a year.
And now my kids are working in Louisiana and paying their Louisiana state income and sales taxes.
If they had gone out state for their undergraduate degrees there would have been little chance they would be working and paying taxes in Louisiana now.
I'm pretty sure they have already paid in more in total state taxes than they received in TOPS benefits.
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