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How are you voting for the mental health tax?
Posted on 12/8/18 at 11:42 am
Posted on 12/8/18 at 11:42 am
Hillar Moore is all for it based on the pamphlets. Says it reduces the load on police officers who are assisting with mentally ill people.
I am torn
I am torn
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Posted on 12/8/18 at 11:44 am to TulaneUVA
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How are you voting for the mental health tax?
My brain no good. Purple is number yellow.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 11:58 am to TulaneUVA
Why not just send them to New Orleans?
Posted on 12/8/18 at 11:59 am to el Gaucho
New Orleans is tapped out
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:02 pm to crewdepoo
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I vote for all taxes
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:02 pm to TulaneUVA
I voted no because it was a property tax.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:07 pm to TulaneUVA
imagine wanting to pay money for people that don’t affect you
Liberalism is a mental health problem
Liberalism is a mental health problem
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:09 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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I voted no because it was a property tax.
Me too. I vote no for all property taxes.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:10 pm to TulaneUVA
Call me crazy, but I’m voting against it.
Kidding. Wasn’t on the ballot here.
Kidding. Wasn’t on the ballot here.
This post was edited on 12/8/18 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:11 pm to TulaneUVA
NO!
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:11 pm to TulaneUVA
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Says it reduces the load on police officers who are assisting with mentally ill people.
It was explained to me that it would put them in a facility instead of jail
That it’s geared to not help the average citizen that has issues but more to the addicts & homeless
WBRZ
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"If this tax does not pass, we will be in the same position that we're always in, with really no adequate place to send people with mental illness, but an emergency room that's treating people with medical conditions and/or to a parish prison," said Moore.
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If it passes, the one and a half-mill property tax would provide $6 million per year to get a facility up and running. The facility would be maintained for ten years.
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This is desperately needed from where we sit," Moore added. "We believe that in the population of the parish prison, in some way or another, 60 percent of the inmates may have some type of mental illness."
You will just be paying for somewhere else for the people to be instead of clogging up hospitals & jails
We need real mental health reform, there is a huge need for a mental health facility in BR but I don’t see this as being the solution for the average person that has problems
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:12 pm to TulaneUVA
I am voting yes on this but no on the rest.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:17 pm to TulaneUVA
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Hillar Moore is all for it based on the pamphlets. Says it reduces the load on police officers who are assisting with mentally ill people.
As someone who works in the ER and sees this shite on a regular basis, I can attest to this. I can also attest to the massive recidivism that is a waste of resources and taxpayer dollars. Having dedicated facilities for these folks would ultimately serve the public good and probably save money in the long term.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:17 pm to TulaneUVA
Moore and the others are for it because it frees up money in their budgets for them to spend as they wish while increasing our taxes.
The mental health situation certainly needs to be improved and there is a public entity in place now to do that. We don't need to set up a private entity like we did with the COA to do that like BRAF wants to do.
Google Capital Human Services District. They were constituted by the legislature to deal with mental health. Why fund a new group?
Besides the proponents admit they will save (for themselves) 55 million dollars in ten years if we raise 60 million in taxes for the next ten years. Think about that. They want us to spend 60 million dollars more in property taxes to set up another private tax funded group, so they can keep 55 million dollars and not spend it on mental health.
Vote no
The mental health situation certainly needs to be improved and there is a public entity in place now to do that. We don't need to set up a private entity like we did with the COA to do that like BRAF wants to do.
Google Capital Human Services District. They were constituted by the legislature to deal with mental health. Why fund a new group?
Besides the proponents admit they will save (for themselves) 55 million dollars in ten years if we raise 60 million in taxes for the next ten years. Think about that. They want us to spend 60 million dollars more in property taxes to set up another private tax funded group, so they can keep 55 million dollars and not spend it on mental health.
Vote no
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:20 pm to doubleb
For all you "it's not a guns problem it's a mental health problem" this sounds like a good opportunity to start addressing the problem as you see it.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:24 pm to doubleb
This right here. Do we need it? Yes.
But until government learns to spend wisely. I vote no.
Imagine if the government spent their budgets on priority items like this and then came to us and asked for additional taxes to spend on pet projects, lunch meetings and salaries for political cronies. We would say Hell Naw! So they spend their budgets on that stuff and let the priorities go unfunded and then, when it hits crisis level, they come asking for a tax.
Show me your internal budget and how you are spending money and then we can talk.
But until government learns to spend wisely. I vote no.
Imagine if the government spent their budgets on priority items like this and then came to us and asked for additional taxes to spend on pet projects, lunch meetings and salaries for political cronies. We would say Hell Naw! So they spend their budgets on that stuff and let the priorities go unfunded and then, when it hits crisis level, they come asking for a tax.
Show me your internal budget and how you are spending money and then we can talk.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:24 pm to cwil177
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probably save money in the long term.
If this is true then they don’t need more tax dollars to make it happen. If anything this “project” should reduce property owners’ tax burden, not increase it.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:26 pm to Chucktown_Badger
I agree, I like the strategy. They are implementing it the wrong way. They don't need another private entity to run this new plan. Let CAHD do it. They want to but were excluded.
Fund them with the funds we will save by going with this new strategy which I believe is a good one. Let COA pitch in too. There are mentally ill old folks too that need help.
Good strategy, bad plan, and too many property taxes now.
Fund them with the funds we will save by going with this new strategy which I believe is a good one. Let COA pitch in too. There are mentally ill old folks too that need help.
Good strategy, bad plan, and too many property taxes now.
Posted on 12/8/18 at 12:30 pm to doubleb
The result is a $1.50. - $3.00 increase per month on your property tax. THATs IT!
I just don’t understand someone saying they are going to vote against something that could be so good for the community and would cost you less than $30.00 a year.
I just don’t understand someone saying they are going to vote against something that could be so good for the community and would cost you less than $30.00 a year.
This post was edited on 12/8/18 at 12:31 pm
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