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re: Sid Edwards continuing to push his plan
Posted on 2/26/25 at 5:03 am to doubleb
Posted on 2/26/25 at 5:03 am to doubleb
The People in Central need to vote Mayor Wade Evans out of office for not supporting this common sense plan by Mayor-President Sid Edwards. How can one with common sense not support Sid's plan?
I voted against this ridiculous dedicated tax back in 2005 when it was first passed and again in 2015 when it was renewed. People in this city are stupid. They vote for every property tax put on ballot, meanwhile damn property tax in EBR is becoming unaffordable.
Library gets like $100 million a year. It is an insane amount. Mayor Sid is not closin Libraries either, they still will get like 38 million which still gives them 18 million to pay for libray staff and nerds like Mary Stein and still have $20 million to run the libraries.
Sorry, but since 2010, and now that internet is in like every home and on everyone's cell phone for a small fee, thee is no need to go to the library to research a subject when you can easily do it at home. There is no need for another library. Really only need maybe one main library at Goodwood and that Boondoggle Downtown that is about to collapse on itself. But I stopgoing to the libary about 20 years ago. No need to go there since internet. And I would like to see my tax dollars spent elsewhere.
Mayor Dustin Yates of SG needs to get off the fence and show support for this common sense plan by EBR President Sid Edwards (Unlike the doofus mayor of Central).
We also need to gut other dedicated taxes in EBR like the dedicated tax for BREC (which went like 3 years without an audit of our tax money spent on out of town trips, free vacations, and conventions for BREC Employees), and this Council on Aging needs to go bye-bye, that money could definitely be spent elsewhere.
NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Definitely voting no on D.A. Hillar Moore's proposed property tax.
WE NEED TO DIVERT THE TAX MONEY like Sid's Plan calls for. I just hope Baton Rouge shows up to voite for it. Because people in City of SG and Central seem to think this is not their problem when it damn well is their problem. It our property taxes being wasted on a bunch of library nerds when that money needs to be spent on higher priorities.
City of SG and Central are still located in EBR Parish.
I voted against this ridiculous dedicated tax back in 2005 when it was first passed and again in 2015 when it was renewed. People in this city are stupid. They vote for every property tax put on ballot, meanwhile damn property tax in EBR is becoming unaffordable.
Library gets like $100 million a year. It is an insane amount. Mayor Sid is not closin Libraries either, they still will get like 38 million which still gives them 18 million to pay for libray staff and nerds like Mary Stein and still have $20 million to run the libraries.
Sorry, but since 2010, and now that internet is in like every home and on everyone's cell phone for a small fee, thee is no need to go to the library to research a subject when you can easily do it at home. There is no need for another library. Really only need maybe one main library at Goodwood and that Boondoggle Downtown that is about to collapse on itself. But I stopgoing to the libary about 20 years ago. No need to go there since internet. And I would like to see my tax dollars spent elsewhere.
Mayor Dustin Yates of SG needs to get off the fence and show support for this common sense plan by EBR President Sid Edwards (Unlike the doofus mayor of Central).
We also need to gut other dedicated taxes in EBR like the dedicated tax for BREC (which went like 3 years without an audit of our tax money spent on out of town trips, free vacations, and conventions for BREC Employees), and this Council on Aging needs to go bye-bye, that money could definitely be spent elsewhere.
NO MORE PROPERTY TAXES, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Definitely voting no on D.A. Hillar Moore's proposed property tax.
WE NEED TO DIVERT THE TAX MONEY like Sid's Plan calls for. I just hope Baton Rouge shows up to voite for it. Because people in City of SG and Central seem to think this is not their problem when it damn well is their problem. It our property taxes being wasted on a bunch of library nerds when that money needs to be spent on higher priorities.
City of SG and Central are still located in EBR Parish.
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Posted on 2/26/25 at 5:17 am to Martini
I support Sid's plan to pay Peter by robbing Paul, instead of another property tax that robs property owners.
I feel sorry for young people in this city having to pay a ridiculous amount for house and simple cost of living. We now have a sales tax of like 12% and property taxes that continue to rise.
Interest rates, house prices and property taxes keep increasing.
I feel sorry for young people in this city having to pay a ridiculous amount for house and simple cost of living. We now have a sales tax of like 12% and property taxes that continue to rise.
Interest rates, house prices and property taxes keep increasing.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 5:47 am to doubleb
Louisiana needs a D.O.G.E.
Bigly.....Corruption is an entitlement program.
Bigly.....Corruption is an entitlement program.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 5:58 am to doubleb
I didn't vote for a blanket tax for the parish grift. I voted for a library tax. You're welcome to eliminate the tax, but it is illegal to use those funds for purposes other than those voted on by the people.
Sid Edwards is avoiding a real effort to right size by doing this.
Sid Edwards is avoiding a real effort to right size by doing this.
This post was edited on 2/26/25 at 6:01 am
Posted on 2/26/25 at 7:10 am to Hangit
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This is because those retards allow people to vote on property taxes that do not own property or pay taxes. Those types are for every tax. ?
Not only that - all of those services that receive the dedicated tax (EBRL, BREC, CATS, COA....) are allowed to use our tax dollars to fund professionally run, highly visible campaigns to get people to vote to raise our tax dollars even more.
It's complete bullshite.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 7:11 am to Galactic Inquisitor
quote:
alactic InquisitorI didn't vote for a blanket tax for the parish grift. I voted for a library tax. You're welcome to eliminate the tax, but it is illegal to use those funds for purposes other than those voted on by the people. Sid Edwards is avoiding a real effort to right size by doing this.
I agree with you.
But the library tax is too high.
I’d be for letting BR vote as a city to vote a tax for their needs.
Library tax should not go to fund BR needs.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 7:51 am to Galactic Inquisitor
quote:
Sid Edwards is avoiding a real effort to right size by doing this.
Or- when/if the the redistribution fails, he has good reason and PR to start the layoffs.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 7:54 am to Martini
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How do we know other cities are doing as well or better with less? Because Falon Brown who up until 2 months ago was directing traffic on the morning news tells you so?
Do your own research and you will find both cities listed have a similar dollar value budget and capital expenditure than Baton Rouge. And who is to determine they have better libraries? Another assumption.
Two words:
Per Capita
Once you see what BR spends compared to Travis county etc, you'd have to be obtuse to not see what's happening here.
Posting again:
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Posted on 2/26/25 at 7:57 am to Capitalist
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But I stopgoing to the libary about 20 years ago. No need to go there since internet.
Wish you would have started with that. Would have saved me a few minutes of reading
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:07 am to Martini
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If you don’t support the library or think the money should go somewhere else well that’s your prerogative. And you will have the ability to express your opinion in the fall when the tax comes up for renewal.
That’s exactly what I am doing. And when I said we can’t afford what they are doing now is how we are funding a Cadillac of a Library System while other important needs (cops, DA, prisons, drainage, etc.) get neglected.
Currently they are floating the idea that we need to raise taxes for the DA, a new prison, for a storm water plan, and to renovate the RiverCenter. Maybe instead of raising all these new taxes we can cut the Library tax, we can cut the BREC tax and pass a tax to support these other parish services.
Obviously you are proud of our libraries. You should be, but can you honestly say we need more libraries, more librarians at the expense of possibly funding some of these other important things we need?
I believeit’s time to choose.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:13 am to doubleb
Do we need this thread every ten days?
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:18 am to Capitalist
quote:
Capitalist
I support Sid's plan to pay Peter by robbing Paul, instead of another property tax that robs property owners.
Well then your moniker must be because of your love of capital letters because this is socialism and forced redistribution of income the backbone of communism-plain and simple.
quote:
I feel sorry for young people in this city having to pay a ridiculous amount for house and simple cost of living. We now have a sales tax of like 12% and property taxes that continue to rise. Interest rates, house prices and property taxes keep increasing.
I agree with this although the actual sales tax is 10.5% - the state moved to 5% from 4.45% on January 1 of this year.
I pay outrageous property taxes and while I have no need for a mortgage, rates are higher than they have been in quite some time (my first mortgage was 13% second 8.8%-third 7.25%) and yes sales taxes are too high.
And I’m not supporting any more taxes as
I have supported many in the past.
But that is not the point. I think I’ve been clear on why in my previous posts.
We need to look at all of our government and scrub it from top to bottom.
Vote against the renewal of the library, BREC, Council on Aging, East Baton Rouge Parish School System, CATS -am I missing any other dedicated taxes?
And while you do that hold your government accountable for failing to deliver on all of the above.
But what stands out? You actually have new libraries that are state of the art and are a community asset in every sense of the word.
Can you say that for CATS? EBR Schools?
Council on Aging?
I would say BREC has had minimal problems but overall they have done a good job with their millage-it needs improvement.
I supported the Greenlight Plan which Kip Holden created from our pothole tax to leverage the tax and have roads built . It was a success and we saw huge improvements so I supported the second version in 2019 and I have yet to see much progress.
So yeah I have tax fatigue as well. But this needs to be addressed in the proper way.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:25 am to dragginass
quote:Coach Sid could probably get rid of most of EBR’s DPW ‘employees’ - also get rid of the gps systems in each of their trucks that is rarely used, and a lot of equipment that is sitting in a warehouse because it’s not used since a lot of work is contracted out - and that would help and no one would notice
to start the layoffs.
12 guys and 4 trucks to change out a pipe in my neighborhood a few weeks ago - I guess that’s ’just in case’ something happens
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:27 am to LemmyLives
quote:
Do we need this thread every ten days?
Yes
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:28 am to Old Man and a Porch
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I read an article on WBRZ where he said he was cutting 600 jobs if the voters didn’t approve the money being moved.
That’s a big mistake to approach the voters like that in my opinion.
He said himself that 600 jobs was hyperbole.
This is a similar playbook to JBE threatening football to get his budget passed.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:33 am to Martini
quote:
So yeah I have tax fatigue as well. But this needs to be addressed in the proper way.
Thanks for the good discussion,
You and I aren’t that far apart. We see a lot of the same things. I just believe we hav Ed Ed bough libraries now because the Library board did what they said. They went overboard in my opinion, but we have good libraries.
I just don’t think we need new ones.
And I am not got taking library funds to pay other bills. The surplus should be used for maintenance, books, etc. and that way the millage could be cut down and not hurt current operations.
We dedicated that money to libraries. It should stay there.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:35 am to dragginass
What is it without the parks system?
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:38 am to dragginass
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Or- when/if the the redistribution fails, he has good reason and PR to start the layoffs.
Broome chickened out and left a mess. She just cut everything 5%.
We all know everything in government isn’t equal. Some things should not be cut while others could be cut some, and other things cut out.
Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:47 am to dragginass
quote:Please stop posting memes without any citation or reference.
Posting again:
Posted on 2/26/25 at 9:01 am to Fewer Kilometers
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He’ll go after every public service dollar that has any hint of helping minorities or lower income citizens until he gets his Trump patch for his letter jacket.
If you think this, then you don't know Sid Edwards very well. That man cares more about minorities than some people in their own community care.
This post was edited on 2/26/25 at 9:01 am
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