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re: ITEP critics defeat ExxonMobil tax break requests Thursday at School Board
Posted on 1/18/19 at 5:34 pm to Cump11b
Posted on 1/18/19 at 5:34 pm to Cump11b
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Sherwood Middle Academic Magnet School
Is EBRSB just calling all schools "magnet" schools now? I heard someone say Weedlawn and Tara are called "magnet" now too. Are all the non-magnet students just on the streets now?
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Posted on 1/18/19 at 6:14 pm to WildManGoose
Sherwood middle is a 100% dedicated magnet school. Gotta keep the grades to stay in.
Woodlawn and Tara has (magnet programs). It’s used to try to attract students there.
Woodlawn and Tara has (magnet programs). It’s used to try to attract students there.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 8:04 pm to Cump11b
20 years from now Dollar General will be the largest taxpayer in EBRP.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 8:07 pm to RougeDawg
Dollar General and Dollar Stores popping up everywhere
Posted on 1/18/19 at 8:27 pm to Mudminnow
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Keep in mind either trolling like a MF or a simpleton who has never left the state of Louisiana or his city in Louisiana.
I've driven through 44 states a number of times and driven through almost every small town in Louisiana.
I pay attention to houses, cars, grocery stores, gas stations, schools, police stations.
It is quite shocking how poorly a lot of the country is doing. Houses that are shacks we wouldn't use for camps. The average age of cars going back into the late 90s, with newer cars being the exception rather than the norm. The largest grocery stores in towns having the selections of your average discount stores in North baton rouge. Gas stations that are still manual. Schools that are basically steps above shacks. Police stations that make the calcasieu satellite office look like a damned mansion.
If you open your eyes when you travel, you might not have such a harsh opinion of your home state.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 8:31 pm to Modern
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Woodlawn and Tara has (magnet programs). It’s used to try to attract students there.
We are zoned for Tara and I wouldn't send my daughter there if they paid us 10k per year.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 1:02 am to X123F45
I do travel extensively, and can assure you that the petrochemical industry is the only thing that keeps Louisiana from being Mississippi. If you believe we are doing well, it’s largely funded by a sector with 30K high paying jobs, each one funding 5-6 other jobs.
And yet we have a governor and some other low IQ politicians that want to shite on the hand that feeds them. Idiots.
And yet we have a governor and some other low IQ politicians that want to shite on the hand that feeds them. Idiots.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 1:09 am to Icansee4miles
Louisiana as a whole is shite
Posted on 1/19/19 at 6:22 am to Mudminnow
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Congrats to wanting a better quality of life. What part of TX are you moving to? 10% of all people born in Louisiana eventually move to TX
Moving to the suburbs of Austin near lake Travis. We have three kids under five and wanted to start them in the Lake Travis ISD. Hill country is beautiful. Pumped too bc Lsu baseball is coming in March and football in September and I already have tickets to see David Gray in May at Austin city limits. Couple that with $99 direct flights now Austin to BR to visit family and it’s the easiest decision ever.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 6:30 am to Modern
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Woodlawn and Tara has (magnet programs).
Posted on 1/19/19 at 7:38 am to Cump11b
All Exxon going to do is look at the full cost on any future expansions. Exxon not moving or closing down. You will just see a lot of new projects go elsewhere. It will be hard for BR to compete with Texas or other states when you look at total cost.
Formosa has a BR in that same area. Instead of expanding it which their room is limited unless they bought some of ethyl of land they are building a plant in St James Parish.
These companies will go where there is least resistance. If you look at service companies the Geismar area booming while the NBR area is full of abandon buildings that left the area.
Formosa has a BR in that same area. Instead of expanding it which their room is limited unless they bought some of ethyl of land they are building a plant in St James Parish.
These companies will go where there is least resistance. If you look at service companies the Geismar area booming while the NBR area is full of abandon buildings that left the area.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 8:17 am to johnnyrocket
The Formosa plant being built in St James is totally separate from the one in Baton Rouge. They’ll report directly to Taiwan while the one in Baton Rouge reports to the corporate headquarters in New Jersey.
They do have a plant in Texas where they can consider expanding instead of here though, which’ll probably happen.
They do have a plant in Texas where they can consider expanding instead of here though, which’ll probably happen.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:12 am to Cump11b
Oh horrors, what has happened to free market economics when the government can deny a firm its corporate welfare. Next they’ll actually ask the oil companies to contribute to stopping the coastal erosion that they helped cause.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 9:14 am to Overbrook
quote:the govt can do as they see fit
horrors, what has happened to free market economics when the government can deny a firm its corporate welfare.
Just don't be surprised when that business leaves the area, along with it's tax base, at the first opportunity
Fair?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:01 am to Rouge
Posted on 1/19/19 at 10:58 am to LSUFanHouston
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The plant will create 5 million a year in property taxes. It will employ 500 employees
Ok sounds good.
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You won't get the 5 million a year from me in industrial property taxes, but you will get all of the new residential property taxes, and sales taxes, from all the new people my plant will bring to the community.
Why don’t you just pay your industrial tax, then residential property taxes can decrease and more of the money that is paid in salary is put into the economy in other ways.
So actually you took 5 million out of the economy and it’s not coming back.
Don’t piss on my shoes and tell me it’s raining.
ETA: this kind of thinking is why Louisiana has been pillaged by outside companies for decades.
This post was edited on 1/19/19 at 11:00 am
Posted on 1/19/19 at 11:04 am to lsu1919
quote:because other places will offer the deal
Why don’t you just pay your industrial tax, then residential property taxes can decrease and more of the money that is paid in salary is put into the economy in other ways.
The job of exxon is to maximize shareholder value, not make sure that residential property taxes are lower.
Have the jobs, housing, schools, and tax revenue from those people is more valuable that the industrial tax.
BR needs Exxon much more than Exxon needs BR. It's simple leverage that comes with big industry.
Posted on 1/19/19 at 11:08 am to lsu1919
The alternative is for them to pack up and leave
What will it be?
What will it be?
Posted on 1/19/19 at 12:32 pm to fallguy_1978
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This post was edited on 6/30/20 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 1/19/19 at 1:51 pm to X123F45
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s quite shocking how poorly a lot of the country is doing. Houses that are shacks we wouldn't use for camps. The average age of cars going back into the late 90s, with newer cars being the exception rather than the norm. The largest grocery stores in towns having the selections of your average discount stores in North baton rouge. Gas stations that are still manual. Schools that are basically steps above shacks. Police stations that make the calcasieu satellite office look like a damned mansion. If you open your eyes when you travel, you might not have such a harsh opinion of your home state.
Very true of a lot of rural towns I witnessed traveling through West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.
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