re: St. George: BTR: 1st ‘taxes will go up’ Now ‘brace for cuts’

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In effect, the StG area is currently receiving disproportionate police coverage from the Sheriff's Office compared to the parish's municipalities.

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How does that square up to St. George taxpayers paying for BRPD with zero coverage?

Would BR City be willing to agree that the unincorporated area pays EBRSO a higher rate in exchange for keeping its $50 million dollars of revenue that’s stolen every year?

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remember as i was leaving (or had just left) BR they were trying to gentrify the area around government

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That’s actually working

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Once StG incorporates, we can expect the subsidizing of police coverage to eventually come to an end. It has happened every time a city incorporates in this state and other states.

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You are just speculating. Earlier you spoke about tens of millions for police.

Sure in the year 2099 and SG had four hundred thousand people that might happen.

But seriously the more SG, Central, BR and the others take over policing wouldn’t the sheriff cut back on their patrols?

The fact is we are satisfied with the police services we have now. There’s no reason to change. And there’s no multi million dollar police force in the near future.

that's good

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and her main argument was that her super poor district has voted for every tax for as long as she's represented them. Taxes they don't pay and they're still just as poor as before. What a great soundbite to vote against taxation.

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there were so many arguments yesterday that were actually, on a meta level, full exposures of that parasitic-government mindset

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you think the people promoting "developing" NBR would ever allow that? this is where your argument fails

they want nice, clean, safe areas that cost the same as NBR currently does. even if you assume magic can cure the social pathologies of the area's population, they will STILL require MASSIVE public subsidies (ie, stealing from StG) to keep the prices low

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You are pointing out the massive rub in it. They do want the benefits of development, but they don't understand the effects, so they are quick to call it whitey pushing them out.

I don't know how to get passed that, but I do recognize that fracturing the existing tax base up probably won't help.

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You are pointing out the massive rub in it. They do want the benefits of development, but they don't understand the effects, so they are quick to call it whitey pushing them out.

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and due to this, they aren't working together. this whole "we need to work together to save EBR together" only works if all sides are honest about their goals. the fact that StG opponents have effectively characterized the StG supporters are the only stubborn, unflinching actors is completely dishonest (and i blame the local media most for this)

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I’m not 100% sure it will be a success. But I am 100% sure that EBR and BR City will continue to rot in decay so long as the the status quo remains.

We are one of the highest taxed localities in the country with absolutely nothing to show for it. Our Mayor is incompetent and her administration hands out public money to friends under the guise of community contracts. Half the City Council isn’t intelligent enough to be a part-time manager at Chili’s. The city steals $50 million dollars a year from the unincorporated are to pad its budget and it still has nothing to show for it. EBR schools are one of the worst in the country, as is our infrastructure. And because of this, we can’t attract any kind of business to the area outside of Petrochemical - which doesn’t want to hang around.

We are a dying city.

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We are not dying. That's being over dramatic.

Where was all the outcry during the Mayor's election? Where was the strong push for another candidate? White is not a strong candidate (and who's behind the StG charge).

Every candidate in every office ever has to pay back the people that put them in. That's politics 101. Not a mark against Broome.

Infrastructure and education as much a state issue as it is city. That's what is behind this push and there is little to no data that will or can show these will improve. The city cant even work on roads that belong to the state. The private schools in EBR are excellent.

Change for the sake of change doesn't equate improvement. The time, effort, and money in StG would have been better used pushing strong candidates for public office.

Fracturing the existing tax base shakes things up and gets people out of their comfort zone.

It’s easy to demand everyone else pay for your shite when there is money for it. When the money dries up, you either have to change or suffer.

My guess is that you can’t get accurate polling data for it because the borders are so fricky.