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re: JR Ball: Should dying Louisiana small towns be kept alive?
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:34 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:34 pm to LSUFanHouston
There are places where a well would work. Other places the water table is contaminated or too deep. In a subdivision you'd have to have a community well. No way could you have 200 individual ones. Ditto septic systems.
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Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:36 pm to yellowfin
Why not privatize water and electricity for all of them? Can’t afford the bill? Then pop your own well, get solar panels, etc.. Can’t do that? Time to move.
What some people are failing to understand is that there’s a difference between shutting down local tax-collecting governments vs. forcing everyone to move to the city. The first is a very understandable, acceptable thing. Not enough tax base to supply these services in the area? Time to cut the services (and taxes that were funding them) and let the residents fend for themselves.
The second option will never happen simply because there are some small towns that are truly able to stand on their own due to things like farming, timber, oil, and the businesses that support them (and we need those job sectors to continue output!).
At some point equilibrium will be reached. Towns will shrink or grow to fit the local opportunities. As someone else said, if you truly wanted to speed up the process the key would be to limit welfare/food stamp programs to only large cities where jobs and opportunities are present.
What some people are failing to understand is that there’s a difference between shutting down local tax-collecting governments vs. forcing everyone to move to the city. The first is a very understandable, acceptable thing. Not enough tax base to supply these services in the area? Time to cut the services (and taxes that were funding them) and let the residents fend for themselves.
The second option will never happen simply because there are some small towns that are truly able to stand on their own due to things like farming, timber, oil, and the businesses that support them (and we need those job sectors to continue output!).
At some point equilibrium will be reached. Towns will shrink or grow to fit the local opportunities. As someone else said, if you truly wanted to speed up the process the key would be to limit welfare/food stamp programs to only large cities where jobs and opportunities are present.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:36 pm to Drunken Crawfish
You could logically extend that premise to states. Cut your losses in WV, LA, MS, etc. Pour resources into successful states like Texas. maybe JR could find a job on the Amarillo Business Report.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:39 pm to Decisions
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As someone else said, if you truly wanted to speed up the process the key would be to limit welfare/food stamp programs to only large cities where jobs and opportunities are present.
Baton Rouge would love an influx of another 50,000 nonproducers from the surrounding rural parishes.
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:40 pm to Jim Rockford
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Cut your losses in WV, LA, MS, etc. Pour resources into successful states like Texas.
I am literally getting flashbacks of the Late Roman Empire. Pulled back from Britain, Germany, and Dacia to the more valuable provinces.
Next you’re going to tell me that we’re going to split into a Western and Eastern U.S.
.......it kinda makes sense, what with the West constantly being invaded by barbarian (Mexican) hordes.
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Baton Rouge would love an influx of another 50,000 nonproducers from the surrounding rural parishes.
No take-back’sies.
This post was edited on 3/6/19 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:45 pm to Decisions
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Why not privatize water and electricity for all of them?
It wouldn’t exist without government because it’s not profitable. Pretty much every rural water district was built with federal and state grants.
My hunting camp is in bfe nowhere, I barely get cell phone reception but I have a water system
Posted on 3/6/19 at 4:54 pm to Tigeralum2008
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Lake Providence
Could be a great tourist destination. Never quie understood why their economy is so depressed.
There's a lot of ag wealth, but the farm economy no longer depends on manual labor. One guy with a tractor does the work of 50 men. In addition, some of those farms have absentee owners and the profits go elsewhere.
The largest single landowner in Catahoula Parish is a Belgian insurance company.
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