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re: Dear St. George peeps - please vote in favor of the 2% tax on the December ballot
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:38 pm to MikeBRLA
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:38 pm to MikeBRLA
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It absolutely is a new tax since it doesn’t exist currently.
The only thing new is what entity controls the spending of the existing 2% the parish has controlled and given to BR. The parish already levies it, but this is the part a city can take over from the parish. The 2% will be levied regardless of the vote. It’s just who does it and controls the revenue.
Taking it from parish could be temporarily done up to the 2% by the board of the transition tax district of which the mayor president is a member (or her representative). As the transition tax district has power to levy taxes up to 2% and take from parish control without voter approval. With Broome or her rep on the board along with others I am not even sure if transition board has taken full control of the 2% from the parish much less allocated all collected revenue to StG.
Once the entire 2% is voter approved for city the law also triggers the ending of the transition tax district with its state mandated board choices which aren’t necessary StG supporters (see Broome) and reason that Broome thinks she can negotiate the amount StG gets and either push transition board to back or just obstruct board from taking it over tax in the first place.
Anyone who supported StG and wants to keep the sales tax dollars for StG instead of being spent inside BR by the metro-council and Broome would be pretty ignorant to not support this.
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Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:47 pm to coffeesmeller
No courthouses
Small PD, we have a sheriff.
Govt. much smaller.
Watch
Small PD, we have a sheriff.
Govt. much smaller.
Watch
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:50 pm to udtiger
Better Together organizations are outside rabble rousers paid by Soros. Doesn’t take much research to find this.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:51 pm to coffeesmeller
and actually probably 70 percent of the people work in baton rouge, they taking the money and spending it in st george, livingston and ascencion
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:52 pm to doubleb
i do hope so, but its no utopia
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:53 pm to BigBinBR
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The vote is simply to determine if St George can control their own tax money or if St. George has to beg EBR to let them use the St George tax money.
Can someone explain why this isn't common policy and why it needs to be voted on? Sounds sus and idiotic.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:53 pm to Icansee4miles
thats idiotic, you really thing soros is doing anything local , it would be the same as saying the coch brothers are here
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:56 pm to coffeesmeller
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idiotic
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coch brothers
And you called me an idiot?
Posted on 11/15/24 at 8:58 pm to Icansee4miles
St George Soros to you son.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:00 pm to wasteland
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Yay a new tax. That gives them twice the chance to raise one of them every election cycle! No way this ever becomes more than 6%!
Some of these retard frick responses are elevating my blood pressure
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:01 pm to Bubb
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Can someone explain why this isn't common policy and why it needs to be voted on? Sounds sus and idiotic.
This I’m not sure about. I’m guessing it has something to do with the consolidated government.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:02 pm to BigBinBR
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consolidated government.
Needs to die a terrible death
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:03 pm to Wayne Campbell
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Sure sounds like a 2% reduction in sales tax is coming, and this vote will create a new 2% tax in its place. If true, then it absolutely is a new tax.
Nope. The parish 2% tax would continue to exist and continues to exist parish wide accept for state law empowering voters in incorporated areas to approve taking it over from the parish as city takes over governing. City can vote to swap control of part or all of that 2% to city’s control. Whatever the voters don’t approve stays as a parish sales tax. After this vote the total sales tax % in StG will remain exactly the same regardless of outcome.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:05 pm to Icansee4miles
no man everyone just says stuff, nothing personal at all, i dont want to meet at the sonic but it is kinda far fetched
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:09 pm to dallastigers
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Shall the City of St. George City be authorized pursuant to La. Const. Art. VI, Section 29(B) to levy and collect a perpetual tax of 2% upon the sale at retail, the use, the lease or rental, the distribution, the consumption, and the storage for use or consumption of tangible personal property, and on sales of services, as presently defined in and subject to the tax exemptions in Chapter 2 of Subtitle II of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes beginning on April 1, 2025 in the City of St. George ("Tax") to replace the 2% sales and use tax previously levied by the Consolidated Government for the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge with the proceeds of the Tax to be used for general municipal purposes within the City of St. George including but not limited to, acquiring, constructing, improving and maintaining public works with an estimated annual collection of $48,000,000 and shall the proceeds of the Tax be subject to funding into bonds as authorized by law?
Seems pretty straighforward. The 2% sales tax previously collected by the OLD city of Baton Rouge will be replaced by a new 2% sales tax collected by St. George. It nothing new. It's simply a remove and replace.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:11 pm to coffeesmeller
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i do hope so, but its no utopia
No one says it is.
But right now SG taxes go into a general fund and disappear. With SG it stays here and you can see where it goes.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 9:17 pm to udtiger
This is probably going to get voted down, and that really just exemplifies why both democracy and St. George were bad ideas.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 10:23 pm to Porpus
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This is probably going to get voted down, and that really just exemplifies why both democracy and St. George were bad ideas.
Oh frick the hell off
Posted on 11/15/24 at 11:09 pm to SG_Geaux
You're not going to build a wall around your own little part of Baton Rouge and somehow make it nice.
Posted on 11/15/24 at 11:32 pm to udtiger
I'll wait until Eric Daugherty tweets
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