re: NOLA people: are you voting for the millage today?

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Libraries, fire departments, schools, police...

Sounds like an invoicing nightmare and also sounds like a shitty society.

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Sure, we can go line item by line item.

For starters, libraries are pretty much outdated now with the advent of the internet. Very few people in our society use them yet everybody has to pay for them. How can you justify that? If they cant sustain themselves with user fees they need to not exist like any other business.

Although this is somewhat debatable, fire suppression can be fairly well argued as one of the few legitimate uses of public funding. I would say that's under the purview of local government.

Schools are easy. If your kid is enrolled in public school you pay the portion of your property tax that supports public schools. If you're not a property owner, then that cost is passed to whoever you're living with or to your landlord, if you rent. That cost is then passed on from the landlord to the tenant in the form of increased rent. It actually doesn't amount to that much and it's already factored into rent.
Source: Me. I'm a landlord.

It wouldn't actually increase the rent for those with kids in public school because that's already factored in, it would only reduce the rent for those who don't have kids in public school as the property tax savings will be passed on to the landlord.

And no, it likely wouldn't mean increased millages to support public school funding because nobody's going to vote for them. It would force administrators and politicians to be more careful with their budgets and stop being so wasteful. It also might mean consolidation of some schools which would increase travel time for some. There's always a price to pay. You're the one with kids in school, you should be the one to have to deal with it.

Also, it's helpful to know that the cost to educate a public school student per year, on average in the US is around $11,400. That's why vouchers have become popular. It often cost a lot less than that to send your kids to private school.

Government is inherently inefficient. There's no reason we should all be giving our money to our governments to try to manage the education of our kids and other people's kids, when we can give it to a private school who does the job better.

Law enforcement absolutely is under the purview of local and state government. Military and law enforcement, providing for the security of the free state, is one of the original intended and justified executions of government power.

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For starters, libraries are pretty much outdated now with the advent of the internet.

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Your ignorance was exposed in this first statement.

Pretty much voided everything you said past this point.

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For starters, libraries are pretty much outdated now with the advent of the internet. Very few people in our society use them yet everybody has to pay for them. How can you justify that? If they cant sustain themselves with user fees they need to not exist like any other business.

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this is where you lose your remaining credibility. YOU don’t use libraries. Plenty of other people use libraries. In fact, every time I go to any library, it is busy. Don’t project your illiteracy onto the general public. According to The latest statistics available, more people visit libraries currently than 10 years ago.

I don’t care to read the rest of your post.

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Who are you again? Have we ever interacted before? Sorry that I have no clue what your job is nor do I care, internet stranger who I will never meet.

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What does any of that matter?

I’m responding to your post on a public message board.

I asked you a question, your response to MY post tells me all I need to know about you.

You don’t know Jack shite

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If your defense is to make personal attacks against a random internet stranger, t

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You’re not a stranger. I know who you are, unfortunately

I Have been out there countless times and never had anyone stop bye to say anything.

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You don’t know Jack shite

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I know that people don’t have to pay anything to enter City Park, walk through acres of the park or play on any of the playgrounds at the park. Yes, people must pay to use special sections of the park, but the vast majority of the park is free for public use.

And yes, we are strangers. Someone being pathetic enough to sleuth around to find out my name does not mean that you know me. I still have no clue who you are, nor do I care to find out.

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Hahaha yes if you want to rent their field of course you have to pay. That is just like many other parks if you want to reserve and use their lights you pay.

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That’s what I’m saying.

Even without the lights, the access to the fields in city park are not free.

I’ve rented a baseball field in city park for 3 straight years in a row from March to July.

Guess who had to maintain the field at their own expense?

Sure. Meet me at the CDM stand at City Park tomorrow at 10. I’ll pay your admission fee to get into the park.
If you actually knew me, you’d know I’m happily married with zero interest in meeting or corresponding with assholes from the internet.

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Sure. Meet me at the CDM stand at City Park tomorrow at 10. I’ll pay your admission fee to get into the park.

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I’ll be there. I’m stopping at Finns for an eye opener then going park at the back gate entrance for Jazz Fest.

I’m sure I can fit you in