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re: Louisiana State Budget & TOPS
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:51 am to tigeraddict
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:51 am to tigeraddict
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sounds about right. i started college 5 years before TOPS was created and now my child is graduating and is TOPS eligible and won't get to see it
I'll be in the same boat. Tops didn't exist when I went to college and I'll have a college aged kid in 5 years.
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Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:52 am to TDsngumbo
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All the fake arse "conservatives" in this state are going to lose their minds.
Of all the things we spend money on, higher education is one of the better things. Want to get rid of TOPS? Get college costs under control
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:53 am to TDsngumbo
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All the fake arse "conservatives" in this state are going to lose their minds.
TOPS is nothing more then a Shell game.
pre-TOPS the state funded a majority of the state schools budget. TOPS was created and the higher ed budgets from state were greatly lowered. TOPS was a way to funnel money back to the universities that the people would support
similar state budgets, just coming from different directions....
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:54 am to tigeraddict
If that's the case, it raises the question of what will the Universities cut if TOPS isn't funded and, by extension, there's no money to redistribute directly to the schools.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:55 am to MrLSU
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You can be certain of one thing and that is that TOPS will be officially history.
They will find a way to fund it. Probably through higher taxes. If they let it die, as it should, it would piss off to many people and they (current politicians) would lose votes.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:56 am to 385 Tiger
Looks like all those 4.0 "honors" students from inner cities with 19's on their ACT's won't be getting that free ride anymore. It's not their fault the system allowed them to get a fake 4.0 and didn't actually prepare them for college, but it's not mine either.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:56 am to 385 Tiger
Ya’ll gotta keep TOPS to subsidize TX and AL’s labor force!
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:57 am to JOJO Hammer
if it died do you think they'd just kill it outright, or grandfather it to where current college students still receive it?
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:58 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
TOPS is one of the few programs that actually benefits the middle class, so of course its going away. We can't cut any programs that give away money to the leaches of society now can we.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 10:59 am to VictoryHill
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Looks like all those 4.0 "honors" students from inner cities with 19's on their ACT's won't be getting that free ride anymore
So naive, my young child.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:02 am to 385 Tiger
Why don't we just close the public college system?
That's all TOPS is anyway, funding that used to go directly to the colleges. An operator don't need no college anyway.
That's all TOPS is anyway, funding that used to go directly to the colleges. An operator don't need no college anyway.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:10 am to BeepNode
How about this, each department and agency determine what gets cut, but everyone’s operating budget is now 95%.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:10 am to chryso
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Oh crap, if TOPS goes away,who will pay to educate other states workforces?
If the jobs in Louisiana paid better maybe the graduates wouldn't move
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:12 am to jralspanky
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the jobs in Louisiana existed maybe the graduates wouldn't move
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:13 am to JOJO Hammer
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They will find a way to fund it. Probably through higher taxes. If they let it die, as it should, it would piss off to many people and they (current politicians) would lose votes.
Oh don't you worry one iota about higher taxes because we are (in Justin Wilson's best voice) guuuaranteeeed to get taxed to high hell and pushed out of the state when the final tax bill arrives.
I've said this before and the DOTD people keep down-voting me but if there was an agency that was in desperate need of a budget cut its the bloated and inefficient DOTD. The last time I looked we spent more per capita on the DOTD than any other state in the US.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:14 am to Oilfieldbiology
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How about this, each department and agency determine what gets cut, but everyone’s operating budget is now 95%.
There's absolutely NOTHING in the constitution that prevents the legislature from cutting the budget across the board by 5%. However, that's poor leadership. You should give examples on what exact programs to cut.
BTW, will gas taxes, driver licenses fees, hunting and fishing permits, etc all be reduced by 5% as well?
I don't think you people have thought this through.
This post was edited on 4/21/20 at 11:18 am
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:15 am to BeepNode
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There's absolutely NOTHING in the constitution that prevents the legislature from cutting the budget across the board by 5%.
Isn't most of LA's budget protected other than health care and education?
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:16 am to BeepNode
Then why do they only cut health care and education?
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:17 am to Oilfieldbiology
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the jobs in Louisiana existed maybe the graduates wouldn't move
Posted on 4/21/20 at 11:19 am to 385 Tiger
Sports gambling will be legalized to sustain TOPS.
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