re: Nov 13 2021 La Constitutional Amendments

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Which means the populace will overwhelmingly vote

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#2 no. Will not be able to deduct federal taxes from state return if this passes.

I'll save you some time.. ALWAYS vote No on amendments. Most are BS anyway. And ALWAYS ALWAYS VOTE NO ON MILLAGE INCREASES!!!

Because we already have a bloated government with to many useless agencies and to many managers per workers.

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fricking motherfricking No

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Haven't we complained about how the La const forces spending in particular areas and allows for no cuts? Wouldn't this allow for some of that unnecessarily pre-determined spending to move to actual areas of need? It will reduce protected spending.

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this is how the left takes over the government. They don't ignore it. They jump in and take it over while the right is too pissed off to get involved. The right has a responsibility to pay attention and participate

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Bingo.

It's been stated here recently and needs to be said again. The conservative side, at least in Louisiana, has a huge problem whereby everything is nationalized, even more so these days. Everything is MAGA and the red meat national show host talking point, and they don't bare down and get their folks clued in on the state and local stuff. Next thing you know, you have an election with very low participation rates at the polls from the conservative leaning side.

Meanwhile, the leftists and their organizations like LA Budget Project and such are making sure their side knows what's taking place and makes damn sure they turn out for these less publicized local and special state election.

Turn off Dan Bongino just for a bit, not completely, and spend that extra time learning about your local and state government in Louisiana. How does it work? What does the Constitution say? What are these amendments truly going to mean? Who is running for judge, parish council/policy jury?

Then get out and vote and make a difference in THOSE elections.

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With present law they dont have to make difficult decisions. The only formula to get out of deficit is cut higher ed, cut healthcare, or raise taxes. With this amendment they could do things like across the board cuts or more cut bullshite programs with dedicated funding.

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You're not wrong, but good luck convincing others here.

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Yeah that's going to be incorrect. It won't replace even 1 of them.

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It will allow businesses to avoid dealing with them while massively scaling back their responsibilities of those agencies.

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Except the State Constitution, drawn up by Edwin Edwards himself, causes the issue that 4, while not perfect, seems to attempt to remediate some.

Again, with the way the Constitution is current written, the only segments of state government that can receive a significant reduction in funding, even in times of a deficit, is health care and higher education.

This was done on purpose by EWE so that during those times, he and his ilk could claim that anyone who didn't support a tax increase for additional reevery uninformed poster on this boards starts parroting John Kennedy's useless talking points venues was for killing the old and handicap and keeping our school children dumb.

Is that the mantra we want the left to be able to continue chanting for more tax increases?

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Four should have rousing support from anyone who understands the terrible shape our Constitution is in, and how much in hamstrings legislators.

Everytime we are in a budget deficit, 100s of posters who don't understand how our budget works calls for across the board cuts, but that isn't possible due to constitution and statutory dedications. This amendment would make them possible.