re: Livingston Parish baws…a 40% increase in property tax assessment is on the way

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Shame on people for wanting libraries and fire stations and police departments and ambulance services and a courthouse and jail…

Can have taxes that pay for stuff or can live in the dirt. Your choice.

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Except it isn't that. Look at any of these budgets, so many pet projects at all levels.

The way I read the story linked is this increase just brings the taxes back up to where they were before the 2016 flood when the taxing authorities rolled back their assessments 40%.

So for 8 years property owners got a huge tax break to recover from the flood.

Seems like a reasonable thing to do now.